alas! there is no casting anchor in the stream of time!

Calumny is the offspring of Envy.

A profound knowledge of life is the least enviable of all species of knowledge, because it can only be acquired by trials that make us regret the loss of our ignorance.

Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.

Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.

It is a sad thing to look at happiness only through another's eyes.