“ Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. ”

“ Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed. ”

“ Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. ”

“ Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another. ”

“ In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. ”

“ Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. ”

“ Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune. ”

“ The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable. ”

“ The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. ”

“ Talent hits a target no one else can hit Genius hits a target no one else can see. ”