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.

Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.

Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.

We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.

When we love, it is the heart that judges.

The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.

Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.