Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.

The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.

Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.

No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.

Dandyism is a species of genius.

There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the highest powers of the human mind to produce the miracles of art, as for other men to breathe or move. Correggio, who is said to have produced some of his divinest works almost without having seen a picture, probably did not know that he had done anything extraordinary.