When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.

One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own.

Follow your honest convictions and be strong.

To our betters eve can reconcile ourselves, if you please--respecting them sincerely, laughing at their jokes, making allowance for their stupidities, meekly suffering their insolence; but we can't pardon our equals going beyond us.

Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.

Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.

He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.