Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.

One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.

The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.

Emulation admires and strives to imitate great actions; envy is only moved to malice.

Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.