“Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter
“A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence, because he has no identity - he is continually informing and filling some other body
“An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards
“Sit in reverie, and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind
“You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.
“Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them, they translate it into their own language, and forthwith it means something entirely different