All great men come out of the middle classes.

Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.

Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural world, and await with curious complacency the speedy term of his own conversation with finite nature?

The eye is the best of artists.