Life is as inexorable as the sea.

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?

Noble discontent is the path to heaven.

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.

There are no days in the whole round year more delicious than those which often come to us in the latter half of April... The sun trembles in his own soft rays... The grass in the meadow seems all to have grown green since yesterday.

To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.

How much that the world calls selfishness is only generosity with narrow walls,--a too exclusive solicitude to maintain a wife in luxury, or make one's children rich.