The insolence of wealth will creep out.

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

Very few live by choice. Every man is placed in his present condition by causes which acted without his foresight, and with which he did not always willingly cooperate; and therefore you will rarely meet one who does not think the lot of his neighbor better than his own.

All power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness.

To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it; and seeing one is quite enough.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.