When I want to read a novel, I write one..

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds..

We make our fortunes and we call them fate..

Luck is what a capricious man believes in..

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lac….

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable..

Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man..

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man..

What we call the heart is a nervous sensation, like shyness, which gradually disappears in society. It is fervent in the nursery, strong in the domes….

There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse.

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull..

Age is frequently beautiful, wisdom appearing like an aftermath..

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation..

The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right..

The conduct of men depends upon their temperament, not upon a bunch of musty maxims..

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel..

In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other..

O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray..

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead..

No conjunction can possibly occur, however fearful, however tremendous it may appear, from which a man by his own energy may not extricate himself, a….

Party is organized opinion..