Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.

I like people who can do things

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

We must leave our pets at home, when we go into the street, and meet men on broad grounds of good meaning and good sense.

Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen library-a company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries in a thousand years. The men themselves were then hidden and inaccessible. They were solitary, impatient of interruption, and fenced by etiquette. But now they are immortal, and the thought they did not reveal, even to their bosom friends, is here written out in transparent words of light to us, who are strangers of another age.

And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.