Maturity is when all of your mirrors turn into windows.

What an admirable training is science for the more active warfare of life! Indeed, the unchallenged bravery which these studies imply, is far more impressive than the trumpeted valor of the warrior.

If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned, we should never be troubled with ennui.

The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.

If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.

Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.

No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.