Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we can pardonpride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands, or moves, or leaves a shadow on the wall, or sits for a portrait to the artist, she confers a favor on the world.

Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

Walking has the best value as gymnastics of the mind.