The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now. Greatness appeals to the future.

Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. The great will not condescend to take anything seriously; all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were the building of cities, or the eradication of old and foolish churches and nations, which have cumbered the earth long thousands of years.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.

Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.