Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.
Some people doom themselves to an infinity of annoyance because they won't avoid the society of disagreeable people.
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.
One's country had no right to demand everything. There is much that is higher and better and grander than one's own country. One is patriotic only because one is too small and weak to be cosmopolitan.
No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.