Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning.

The inborn geniality of some people amounts to genius.

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.

A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.

Humor, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light.

What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their embalmed bodies preserved in massive pyramids, to obtain an earthly immortality. In the seventeenth century they were sold as quack medicines, and now they are burnt for fuel! The Egyptian mummies, which Cambyses or time hath spared, avarice now consumeth. Mummy is become merchandise.

Cervantes shrewdly advises to lay a bridge of silver for a flying enemy.