The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

Waste not a day in vain digression; with resolute, courageous trust seek every possible impression and make it firmly your posession you'll then work on because you must.

Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.

When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.

Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.

A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.

Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.