Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.

Happiness lies first of all in health.

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!