The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child.

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.

It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.

Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth, and to vindicate their manhood in our eyes. This conspicuous chair is their compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.

Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.