Power is so characteristically calm that calmness in itself has the aspect of power, and forbearance implies strength. The orator who is known to have at his command all the weapons of invective is most formidable when most courteous.

O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.

A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher and acts like a Samaritan.

Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect.

To be happy, you must learn to forget yourself.