I softly sink into the bath of sleep: With eyelids shut, I see around me close The mottled, violet vapors of the deep, That wraps me in repose.
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.
A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.
Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
All who become men of power reach their estate by the same self-mastery, the same self-adjustment to circumstances, the same voluntary exercise and discipline of their faculties, and the same working of their life up to and into their high ideals of life.