We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.

Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.

Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

Living requires but little life; doing requires much.

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.