Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

Spoons and skimmers you can be undistinguishably together; but vases and statues require each a pedestal for itself.

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind.

The force of character is cumulative.

Love not the flower they pluck and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.