The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.

There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had wellnigh thought and said.

The world is so beautiful that I can hardly believe it exists.

Conservatism is affluent and openhanded, but there is a cunning juggle in riches. I observe that they take somewhat for everythingthey give. I look bigger, but am less; I have more clothes, but am nit so warm; more armor, but less courage; more books, but less wit.

Adult males are what their moms designed them.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

The believing we do something when we do nothing is the first illusion of tobacco.