Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.

While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.

Time makes ancient good uncouth.

Certainly it is no shame to a man that he should be as nice about his country as his sweetheart, yet it would not be wise to hold everyone an enemy who could not see her with our own enchanted eyes.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

May is a pious fraud of the almanac.

He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.