The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.

Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore.

Only by the supernatural is a man strong--only by confiding in the divinity which stirs within us. Nothing is so weak as an egotist--nothing is mightier than we, when we are vehicles of a truth before which the state and the individual are alike ephemeral.

The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart.

I suppose you could never explain to the most ingenous molusk that such a creature as a whale existed.