In the Greek cities, it was reckoned profane, that any person should pretend a property in a work of art, which belonged to all who could behold it.

Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.

Men in all ways are better than they seem.

If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.

A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes, in letters of light. Concealment avails him nothing; boasting nothing. There is confession in the glances of our eyes; in our smiles; in salutations; and the grasp of hands.

I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.

Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go.