Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.