One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.

There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken.

The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or practical arts, and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers' hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows in poverty, necessity and darkness.

When the night is darkest, the stars come out.

What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.