From the height from which the great look down on the world all the rest of mankind seem equal.

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.

Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.

Women never reason, and therefore they are (comparatively) seldom wrong.

Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.

We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again.

The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.