Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures exposes us to new pains.

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .

It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely.

Days are like years in the love of the young, when no bar, no obstacle, is between their hearts,--when the sun shines, and the course runs smooth--when their love is prosperous and confessed.

To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself.