The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.

You can put up with everything in this world except not with a long stretch of beautiful days.

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.

There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.

Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.