Be not anxious to avoid poverty. In this way the wealth of the universe may be securely invested.

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

Is there any such thing as wisdom not applied to life?

I lately met with an old volume from a London bookshop, containing the Greek Minor Poets, and it was a pleasure to read once moreonly the words Orpheus, Linus, Musæus,--those faint poetic sounds and echoes of a name, dying away on the ears of us modern men; and those hardly more substantial sounds, Mimnermus, Ibycus, Alcæus, Stesichorus, Menander. They lived not in vain. We can converse with these bodiless fames without reserve or personality.

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.