What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever?
Genius is lonely without the surrounding presence of a people to inspire it.
Life is as inexorable as the sea.
Fields are won by those who believe in the winning.
To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.
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.