Poverty is the only load which is the heavier the more loved ones there are to assist in bearing it.

Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

Never write on a subject without first having read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it.

Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.