Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
You talk one way, you live another.
When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.
It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.