What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

The nap is mightier than the sword.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

Lips with such sweetness in their honeyed deeps. As fills the rose in which a fairy sleeps.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as you go.

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves.