It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.
Great men always have dogs.
Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting.
nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.
I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.
Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.