None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it.

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water!

None despise fame more heartily than those who have no possible claim to it.

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often repeated that it is dangerous to enter upon a career of letters without some other means of living. An illustrious author has said in these times, "Literature must not be leant on as upon a crutch; it is little more than a stick.

Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.