Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.

The good husband finds method as efficient in the packing of fire-wood in a shed, or in the harvesting of fruits in the cellar, as in Peninsular campaigns or the files of the Department of State.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes.

How much finer things are in composition than alone.