Models are like athletes: You burn hard and fast.
Virtue were a kind of misery if fame were all the garland that crowned her.
Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.
To trust God when we have securities in our iron chest is easy, but not thankworthy; but to depend on him for what we cannot see, as it is more hard for man to do, so it is more acceptable to God.
Business is the salt of life, which not only gives a grateful smack to it, but dries up those crudities that would offend, preserves from putrefaction and drives off all those blowing flies that would corrupt it.
The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance.
It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him; victory may deprive him of his poison, but reconciliation of his will.
The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.
Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.
We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.
Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.