It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.

We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.

The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks

Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words.

It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.

I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.

Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.