Temperament is the thermometer of character.

Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'

One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.

Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyments have been intellectual joys.

When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.

Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true.