Success never needs an excuse.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.

We must remember how apt man is to extremes--rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

The most delicate beauty in the mind of women is, and ever must be, an independence of artificial stimulants for content. It is not so with men. The links that bind men to capitals belong to the golden chain of civilization,--the chain which fastens all our destinies to the throne of Jove. And hence the larger proportion of men in whom genius is pre-eminent have preferred to live in cities, though some of them have bequeathed to us the loveliest pictures of the rural scenes in which they declined to dwell.

There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.

As the films of clay are removed from our eyes, Death loses the false aspect of the spectre, and we fall at last into its arms as a wearied child upon the bosom of its mother.