The soul knows only the soul; the web of events is the flowing robe in which she is clothed.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.

We can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable.

Use makes a better soldier than the most urgent considerations of duty,--familiarity with danger enabling him to estimate the danger. He sees how much is the risk, and is not afflicted with imagination; knows practically Marshal Saxe's rule, that every soldier killed costs the enemy his weight in lead.

There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.