No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

That best academy, a mother's knee.

In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science.

Console yourself, dear man and brother; whatever you may be sure of, be sure at least of this, that you are dreadfully like other people. Human nature has a much greater genius for sameness than for originality.

A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.

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.