The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

A man's action is only a poicture book of his creed.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Senators and presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the place specially agreeable, but as an apology for real worth, and to vindicate their manhood in our eyes. This conspicuous chair is their compensation to themselves for being of a poor, cold, hard nature.

The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

All mankind love a lover.