We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it. This is the reason why it is so difficult for any but natives to speak a language correctly or idiomatically.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.

There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass ""no day without a line""-visit no place without the company of a book-we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.

We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.