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

"How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism."

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

"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."

"Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword."