Words are the only things that last for ever.

Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.

The expression of a gentleman's face is not so much that of refinement, as of flexibility, not of sensibility and enthusiasm as of indifference; it argues presence of mind rather than enlargement of ideas.

The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.

We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or an equal. Hence ridicule is sure to prevail over truth, for the malice of mankind, thrown into the scale, gives the casting weight.

The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.

Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment.