Every novel is a debtor to Homer.

If we meet no gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps.

The amount of a man's wealth consists in the number of things he can do without.

All stealing is comparative. If you come to absolutes, pray who does not steal.

There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?

He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.

The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light.