Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.

Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.