The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.