Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought.

The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.

What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to spend tastelessly, if not viciously; not knowing that it requires as much talent to spend as to make.

What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their embalmed bodies preserved in massive pyramids, to obtain an earthly immortality. In the seventeenth century they were sold as quack medicines, and now they are burnt for fuel! The Egyptian mummies, which Cambyses or time hath spared, avarice now consumeth. Mummy is become merchandise.

Pretension is nothing; power is everything.

Genius may be almost defined as the faculty of acquiring poverty.

We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.