Endurance is the crowning quality.

He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.

In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

There is a law of neutralization of forces, which hinders bodies from sinking beyond a certain depth in the sea; but in the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

With every step of the recent traveler our inheritance of the wonderful is diminished. Those beautiful pictured notes of the possible are redeemed at a ruinous discount in the hard coin of the actual.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.