In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.

We should strive to go on in fortune and misfortune like a clock during a thunderstorm.

The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.

Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.

When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain upon the further side. . . . O toiling hands of mortals! O wearied feet, travelling ye know not whither! Soon, soon, it seems to you, you must come forth on some conspicuous hilltop, and but a little way further, against the setting sun, descry the spires of El Dorado. Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

But of works of art little can be said.