Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.
Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.
To great evils we submit, we resent little provocations.
The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.
Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to vary the prospect before them.
The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.