“So is cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more remains.”

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

Skill to do comes of doing.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

The years teach much which the days never know.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.

We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.