Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.

We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.

Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty.

... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening.

It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul.