He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others.
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth.
Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence.
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else; and for every thing you gain, you lose something.
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
For every benefit which you receive, a tax is levied.
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
