The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.

Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.

If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!

The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past, and man forgot.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.