Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.
Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.
A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.
Lately we have had many losses.
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.