The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit

How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for investigation for all generations.

Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.

Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.