Nothing ages like laziness.

How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.

But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.

Fate laughs at probabilities.

Ambition has no rest.

In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men as a natural food.

Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.