Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.

How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one

Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

I am always insincere, as always knowing there are other moods.