I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

The rain comes when the wind calls.

Read proudly--put the duty of being read invariably on the author. If he is not read, whose fault is it? I am quite ready to be charmed, but I shall not make-believe I am charmed.

The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.