There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

The gift without the giver is rare.

In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

A wise man travels to discover himself.

Among the lessons taught by the French revolution, there is none sadder or more striking than this--that you may make everything else out of the passions of men except a political system that will work, and that there is nothing so pitilessly and unconsciously cruel as sincerity formulated into dogma.

Taste is the next gift to genius.