Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.

He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

To mourn deeply for the death of another loosens from myself the petty desire for, and the animal adherence to life. We have gained the end of the philosopher, and view without shrinking the coffin and the pall.

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.

Every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy, or a strategy. And without method there is no organization nor construction.