Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit once in so many trials, argues the most splendid talents for missing.

Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh, just, subtle, and mighty opium!

I feel that there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting; traces once impressed upon the memory are indestructible.

A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.

Kings should disdain to die, and only disappear.

All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

Many a man has risen to eminence under the powerful reaction of his mind in fierce counter-agency to the scorn of the unworthy, daily evoked by his personal defects, who with a handsome person would have sunk into the luxury of a careless life under the tranquillizing smiles of continual admiration.