No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.
Excess always carries it's own retributions.
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.
There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
It needs a great nature to bear the weight of a great gratitude.