Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.
Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
All is race - there is no other truth.
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.