» Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.
» Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.
» Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.
» Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.
» It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.
» Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
» Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.
» Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
» To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.
» Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.