Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.

To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts, the sleet, the dust, which assail in endless succession that shadow of a man which we call his reputation.

The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

A person of genius should marry a person of character.