Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.

The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry; and where is there a more kingly flower?

Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.

The dog is the god of frolic.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.