It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be?

Laughter and bitterness are often the veils with which a sore heart wraps its weakness from the world.

Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and all must go.

Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man.

Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth.

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?

Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt.