A man's fortunes are the fruit of his character. A man's friends are his magnetisms.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.

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

But we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted to the end.

Every chair should be a throne and hold a king.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

The genius of life is friendly to the noble, and, in the dark, brings them friends from far.