The happy man does not notice the flight of time.

Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel,--dark misgivings at the inmost heart.

But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?

Emulation is a noble and just passion, full of appreciation.

The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.

It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.

From the moment fear begins I have ceased to fear.