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.

How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.

Think of the ills from which you are exempt.

History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.