In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom "opinion" than he should fear meeting a ghost if he crossed the churchyard at dark.

To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.

Power is so characteristically calm that calmness in itself has the aspect of power, and forbearance implies strength. The orator who is known to have at his command all the weapons of invective is most formidable when most courteous.

More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.

Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed.

Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition.