A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected.

Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.

To say then, the majority are wicked, means no malice, no bad heart in the observer, but, simply that the majority are unripe, andhave not yet come to themselves, do not yet know their opinion.

All great men come out of the middle classes.

Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.

Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.