Ideals are the world's masters.

I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins--particularly fashionable sins.

Work for immortality if you will: then wait for it.

If there be one attribute of the Deity which astonishes me more than another, it is the attribute of patience. The Great Soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry. In the realm of nature, every thing has been wrought out in the august consciousness of infinite leisure; and I bless God for that geology which gives me a key to the patience in which the creative process was effected.

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.

The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer.