Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

New occasions teach new duties.

Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.

The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

Some kind of pace may be got out of the eeriest jade by the near prospect of oats; but the thoroughbred has the spur in his blood.

The victory's in believing.