All successful men have agreed in one thing -- they were causationists. They believed that things went not by luck, but by law; that there was not a weak or a cracked link in the chain that joins the first and last of things.

The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

Life is short but there is always time for courtesy.

The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.

A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.