The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.
Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal likings.
Everything is sweetened by risk.
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.
Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)
If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.
Trees are your best antiques.
In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it.
The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.
If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.
