Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!

Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.

To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.