Our friends early appear to us as representatives of certain ideas, which they never pass or exceed. They stand on the brink of the ocean of thought and power, but they never take a single step that would bring them there.

No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares

The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.

Nature wishes that woman should attract man, yet she often cunningly moulds into her face a little sarcasm, which seems to say, 'Yes, I am willing to attract, but to attract a little better kind of a man than any I yet behold

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.