A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.

Great men have always had dogs.

Indifference is the invincible grant of the world.

Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.

Coleridge cried; "O God, how glorious it is to live!" Renan asks, "O God, when will it be worth while to live?" In Nature we echo the poet; in the world we echo the thinker.

The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal.