How much past there is in a life, however brief it be.
O memory, thou bitter sweet,--both a joy and a scourge!
Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination.
Taste is to literature what bon ton is in society.
Genius inspires this thirst for fame: there is no blessing undesired by those to whom Heaven gave the means of winning it.
[The Germans] so easily confuse obstinacy with energy, and rudeness with firmness.