The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.

Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.

Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.

One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.

Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.

He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.