It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

If you know you are right, stay the course even though the whole world seems to be against you and everyone you know questions your judgment. When you prevail--and you eventually will if you stick to the job--they will all tell you that they knew all along you could do it.

What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]

Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself,-must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will not know.