Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.

In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin.

Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.

Fate laughs at probabilities.

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

Genius has no brother.