A man sits as many risks as he runs.

The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race.

The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.

Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.

Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography

A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen.

Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.