Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

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

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their wisdom, cast their eyes over it, and substantially pronounce it a dead failure, a miserable production, a poor concern.

In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less

Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.

Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.