Complaint is. more contemptible than pitiful.

The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.

Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it.

The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found.

Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals.