The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.
A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near!
Thoughts must come naturally, like wild-flowers; they cannot be forced in a hot-bed, even although aided by the leaf-mould of your past.
A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.