Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.

Toil of science swells the wealth of art.

Appearance rules the world.

The happy man does not notice the flight of time.

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.

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.