The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could.

Personal beauty is then first charming and itself, when it dissatisfies us with any end; when it becomes a story without an end; when it suggests gleams and visions, and not earthly satisfactions; when it makes the beholder feel his unworthiness; when he cannot feel his right to it, though he were Caesar; he cannot feel more right to it than to the firmament and the splendors of a sunset.

A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds.

Faith makes us, and not we it; and faith makes its own forms.

The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops - no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.