Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.

Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home.

Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure.