When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone.

There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.

Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of a freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame, his lapse into the bondage of debtor.

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

Expression is the mystery of beauty.

Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.

Dandies, when first-rate, are generally very agreeable men.