The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.

Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.

Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

What are the publications that succeed? Those that pretend to teach the public that the persons they have been accustomed unwittingly to look up to as the lights of the earth are no better than themselves.

He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.