Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.

All doubt is cowardice - all trust is brave.

It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid interests and the fiercest passions of mean confedes.

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.

When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.

Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.

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