A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
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A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
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Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
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No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
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One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
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The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will power to develop themselves.
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Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
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