An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.

Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow.

One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.

Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.