Art is evidence of our most creative moment.

Each of us sees in others what we carry in our own hearts.

Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These are his becoming draperies, which warm and adorn him.

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.

It is the quality of the moment, not the number of days, or events, or of actors, that imports.