A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.
He that cannot paint must grind the colors.
A fortune won in a day is lost in a day; a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted, seems to acquire from the hand that won it the property of endurance.
Everything good in a man thrives best when properly recognized.
There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.
Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.