Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.

As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness.

Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.

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

O reputation! dearer far than life.

There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.