This is the test and triumph of originality, not to show us what has never been, and what we may therefore very easily never have dreamt of, but to point out to us what is before our eyes and under our feet, though we have had no suspicion of its existence, for want of sufficient strength of intuition, of determined grasp of mind to seize and retain it.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

No really great man ever thought himself so.

The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.