There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs.

There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.

In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.

We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at.