Let us leave hurry to slaves.

In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.

Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all kinds,--epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them; they will never forget it.

It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.

The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.