Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.

I declare, on my soul and conscience, that the attainment of power, or of a great name in literature, seemed to me an easier victory than a success with some young, witty, and gracious lady of high degree.

The errors of women spring, almost always, from their faith in the good, or their confidence in the true

A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.

A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

When attempted self-destruction does not cure a man of life, it cures him of voluntary death.