...crystal and hearts would lose all their merit in the world if it were not for their fragility.
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle.
Literature is a great staff, but a very sorry crutch.
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.
Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.