To be great is to be misunderstood.

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.

Nothing, at last, is sacred; but the integrity of your own mind.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and

Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself.