Among all the accomplishments of life none are so important as refinement; it is not, like beauty, a gift of Nature, and can only be acquired by cultivation and practice.
Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.
Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them.
Some few have a natural talent for office-bolding; very many for office-seeking.
A defeat to a brave man is only a victory deferred.
An inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise.