For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.

I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark.

Courage multiplies the chances of success by sometimes making opportunities, and always availing itself of them; and in this sense Fortune may be said to favor fools by those who, however prudent in their opinion, are deficient in valor and enterprise.