Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe.

By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.

Others can get in your way temporarily, but only you can get out of your way permanently. Our best thoughts come from others.

Envy is ignorance, Imitation is Suicide.

We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands.