Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

Life is as inexorable as the sea.

Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality.

Travelers find virtue in a seeming minority in all other countries, and forget that they have left it in a minority at home.

That genius is feeble which cannot hold its own before the masterpieces of the world.

It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.

There is certainly no defence or water -proof garment against adverse fortune which is, on the whole, so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.