A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
Time makes ancient good uncouth.
My soul is not a palace of the past.
If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
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.