Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.
Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear nor wish th' approaches of the last.
