Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.

In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.

Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty.

Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.

Like streams that keep a summer mind Snow-hid in Jenooary.

Sorrow is the great idealizer.

At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold.