The world is his who has money to go over it.

If your friend has displeased you, you shall not sit down to consider it, for he has already lost all memory of the passage, and has doubled his power to serve you, and, ere you can rise up again, will burden you with blessings.

Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.