He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has.

There is a nobility in the world of manners.

Futurity is impregnable to mortal ken: no prayer pierces through heaven's adamantine walls. Whether the birds fly right or left, whatever be the aspect of the stars, the book of nature is a maze, dreams are a lie, and every sign a falsehood.

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.

Illusion is brief, but repentance is long.

Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it; perhaps, in a certain collocation with other ideas, which may seem equally absurd, it may be capable of furnishing a very serviceable link.