“Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live”

“Nachahmung ist die aufrichtigste Form der Schmeichelei.”

“We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.”

“Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.”

“Wealth... is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more. ”

“Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.”

“Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.”