Valor consists in the power of self recovery.
Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.
My joy in friends, those sacred people, is my consolation.
No man has ever had a point of pride that was not injurious to him.
I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.
The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.