The most fertile soil does not necessarily produce the most abundant harvest. It is the use we make of our faculties which renders them valuable.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!

In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.

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

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

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.