The greatest grace of a gift, perhaps, is that it anticipates and admits of no return.

If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may happen.

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.