Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; - and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.