Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized.

As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.

For you, o broker, there is no other principle but arithmetic. For me, commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred; nor can I detach one duty, like you, from all other duties, and concentrate my forces mechanically on the payment of moneys.

There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but much of histuition comes, on his way to school, from the shop- windows.