To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

Hope is the best possession.

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.

Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.