The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.

Our friendships hurry to short and poor conclusions, because we have made them a texture of wine and dreams, instead of the toughfibre of the human heart. The laws of friendship are austere and eternal, of one web with the laws of nature and of morals.

Do the thing and you will have the power.

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

You cannot make a cheap palace.

I do not wonder at a snowflake, a shell, a summer landscape, or the glory of the stars; but at the necessity of beauty under which the universe lies.