"He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below."

"We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive."

"Fame is the thirst of youth."

"What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little."

"This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions."

"The dew of compassion is a tear."

"I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail."

"Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?"

"The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend."

"Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship."

"'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't."

"Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life."

"Prolonged endurance tames the bold."

"I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains."

"Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people."

"All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin."

"Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim."

"The 'good old times' - all times when old are good."

"A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands."

"The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go."

"Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine."

"Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil."

"Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men."

"I love not man the less, but Nature more."

"One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I'll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other."

"Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication."

"A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know."

"Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore."

"Absence - that common cure of love."

"I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves."

"It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time."

"Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire."

"Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep."

"'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it."

"If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad."

"What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman."

"A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends."

"The heart will break, but broken live on."

"Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray."

"Adversity is the first path to truth."

"Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored."

"Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations."

"It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep."

"As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others."

"Folly loves the martyrdom of fame."

"Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment."

"It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it."

"America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people."

"A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress."

"The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity."