One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.

He does not weep who does not see.

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.