The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe in slippers and flannels, with bib and papspoon, swallowing pills and herb-tea.

He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public.

The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.

A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.

Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.