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.

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it..." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

But whoso is heroic will always find crises to try his edge.

But a compassion for that which is not and cannot be useful and lovely, is degrading and futile.

Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

Be an opener of doors

Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.