That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.

Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.