Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases.

Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Hope is the best possession.

A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.