The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be.

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.

The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.

Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.