The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool.

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.

Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.