Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!

Rank is a great beautifier.

Art does not imitate nature, but founds itself on the study of nature, takes from nature the selections which best accord with its own intention, and then bestows on them that which nature does not possess, viz: The mind and soul of man.

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.

The grave is, I suspect, the sole commonwealth which attains that dead flat of social equality that life in its every principle so heartily abhors.