It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.

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

Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.

It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber.

That which achieves its effect by accident is not art.

I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.