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

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

It is often the easiest move that completes the game.

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.

In some exquisite critical hints on "Eurythmy," Goethe remarks, "that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate laws of harmony, so arranges the objects that they by their position tell their own story." And the rule thus applied to composition in painting applies no less to composition in literature.

The more I think of a people calmly developing, in regions excluded from our sight and deemed uninhabitable by our sages, powers surpassing our most disciplined modes of force, and virtues to which our life, social and political, becomes antagonistic in proportion as our civilisation advances - the more devoutly I pray that ages may yet elapse before there emerge into sunlight our inevitable destroyers.