There is nothing in which a horse's power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop.

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way.

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if you yield tothem in stoutness of heart you have only yourself to blame.

When I quote others I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly.

I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

And I loathe people who find it harder to put up with a gown askew than with a soul askew and who judge a man by his bow, his bearing and his boots.