One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

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.

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

Art and science have their meeting point in method.

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

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

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.