"He cannot drink five bottles, bilk the score, Then kill a constable, and drink five more; But he can draw a pattern, make a tart, And has ladies' etiquette by heart."

"He's tough, ma'am,—tough is J. B.; tough and de-vilish sly."

"O Mrs. Higden, Mrs. Higden, you was a woman and a mother, and a mangler in a million million."

"I know their tricks and their manners."

"Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child."

"Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace."

"Plain without pomp, and rich without a show."

"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."

"She was and is (what can there more be said?) On earth the first, in heaven the second maid."

"A trip-hammer, with an Æolian attachment."

"Character is higher than intellect. * * * A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think."

"No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character."

"A great character, founded on the living rock of principle, is, in fact, not a solitary phenomenon, to be at once perceived, limited, and described. It is a dispensation of Providence, designed to have not merely an immediate, but a continuous, progressive, and never-ending agency. It survives the man who possessed it; survives his age,—perhaps his country, his language."

"Human improvement is from within outwards."

"Our thoughts and our conduct are our own."

"Every one of us, whatever our speculative opinions, knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys."

"Weak and beggarly elements."

"In every deed of mischief, he [Andronicus Comnenus] had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute."

"That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives; Whom none can love, whom none can thank,— Creation's blot, creation's blank."

"A man not perfect, but of heart So high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part Of earth's eternal heritage."

"To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the conditions of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee for being right."

"Aufrichtig zu sein kann ich versprechen; unparteiisch zu sein aber nicht."

"Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt."

"Welch' höher Geist in einer engen Brust."

"Hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre."

"He were n't no saint—but at jedgment I'd run my chance with Jim. 'Longside of some pious gentlemen That wouldn't shook hands with him. He seen his duty, a dead-sure thing— And went for it thar and then; And Christ ain't a-going to be too hard On a man that died for men."

"Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard of propriety."

"Kein Talent, doch ein Charakter."

"ἦθος ἀνθρώπῳ δαίμων"

"O Dowglas, O Dowglas! Tendir and trewe."

"In death a hero, as in life a friend!"

"Wise to resolve, and patient to perform."

"Gentle of speech, beneficent of mind."

"But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend."

"Integer vitæ scelerisque purus Non eget Mauris incidis neque arcu Nec venenatis gravida sagittis Fusce pharetra."

"Paullum sepultæ distat inertiæ Celata virtus."

"Argilla quidvis imitaberis uda."

"A Soul of power, a well of lofty Thought A chastened Hope that ever points to Heaven."

"He was worse than provincial—he was parochial."

"Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend."

"The heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute."

"Nemo repente venit turpissimus."

"He is truly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height of honors."

"E'en as he trod that day to God, So walked he from his birth, In simpleness, and gentleness and honor And clean mirth."

"Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet Till earth and sky stand presently at God's great judgment seat; But there is neither East nor West, border nor breed nor birth When two strong men stand face to face, tho' they come from the ends of the earth!"

"La physionomie n'est pas une règle qui nous soit donnée pour juger des hommes; elle nous peut servir de conjecture."

"Incivility is not a Vice of the Soul, but the effect of several Vices; of Vanity, Ignorance of Duty, Laziness, Stupidity, Distraction, Contempt of others, and Jealousy."

"On n'est jamais si ridicule par les qualités que l'on a que par celles que l'on affecte d'avoir."