A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation, prior to all consideration of the mechanical proportions of the features and head.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables.

If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you know questions your judgment. When you prevail--and you eventually will if you stick to the job--they will all tell you that they knew all along you could do it.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.