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

Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past.

It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.

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

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

The most exacting jailer is our own conscience.

To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.