The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The man who smokes, thinks like a sage and acts like a Samaritan.

It is an inevitable law that a man, in spite of himself, should live for something higher than his own happiness. He cannot live in himself or for himself, however egotistical he may try to be. Every desire he has links him with others.

Childhood and genius have the same master-organ in common—inquisitiveness. Let childhood have its way, and as it began where genius begins, it may find what genius finds.