Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?

Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

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

He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent and obtrusive particulars have evaporated from the memory.

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.

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.