Narrow waists and narrow minds go together.

Success makes success, like money makes money.

In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.

Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.

And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)

In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what man would be without his reason. 'Tis a necessary evil.

All passions are exaggerated, otherwise they would not be passions.