He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.