Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.

There is no man so great as not to have some littleness more predominant than all his greatness. Our virtues are the dupes, and often only the plaything of our follies.

Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.

Expression is the mystery of beauty.

Hobbies should be wives, not mistresses. It will not do to have more than one at a time. One hobby leads you out of extravagance; a team of hobbies you cannot drive till you are rich enough to find corn for them all. Few men are rich enough for that.