Time hath a taming hand.

There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.

Two and two only supreme and luminously self-evident beings, myself and my Creator.

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men.

Brutes gaze on sights, they are arrested by sounds; and what they see and what they hear are sights and sounds only. The intellectof man, on the contrary, energises as well as his eye or ear, and perceives in sights or sounds something beyond them. It seizes and unites what the senses present to it; it grasps and forms what need not be seen or heard except in detail. It discerns in lines and colors, or in tones, what is beautiful and what is not. It gives them a meaning, and invests them with an idea.

How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.