He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.

Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

I am not afraid of the truth, if any one could tell it me, but I am afraid of parts of it impertinently uttered.

Things looked at patiently from one side after another generally end by showing a side that is beautiful.

Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was.

A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact; both inhere in nature, neither represents it.