Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.
The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.
A man who stops at nothing short of the law is very clever indeed!
As a rule, only the poor are generous.