The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.
A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.
Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy.
The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth.
A man should not be a silkworm; nor a nation a tent of caterpillars.
The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.