A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.

I know very well what Goethe meant when he said that he never had a chagrin but he made a poem out of it. I have altogether too much patience of this kind.

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

The life without men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.

Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe.

All that is told of the sea has a fabulous sound to an inhabitant of the land and all its products have a certain fabulous quality, as if they belonged to another planet.