Always scorn appearances and you always may.

I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist, and if that organ was sound, he became a Unitarian.

Life too near paralyses art.

Go forth into the busy world and love it. Interest yourself in its life, mingle kindly with its joys and sorrows.

A strenuous soul hates cheap success. It is the ardor of the assailant that makes the vigor of the defendant.

Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus.

Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe.