Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Why have only two or three ways of life, and not thousands? Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.
Wherever Macdonald sits, there is the head of the table.
When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field the next man will appear.
Whatever limits us, we call Fate.
What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
We must be our own before we can be another’s.
We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names we can.
We do not count a man’s years until he has nothing else to count.
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
