There is something solid and doughty in the man that can rise from defeat, the stuff of which victories are made in due time, when we are able to choose our position better, and the sun is at our back.

Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.