Manners Make The Fortune Of The Ambitious

An Individual Man Is A Fruit Which It Cost All The Foregoing Ages To Form And Ripen. He Is Strong, Not To Do, But To Live; Not In His Arms, But In His Heart; Not As An Agent, But As A Fact.

But In Every Constitution Some Large Degree Of Animal Vigor Is Necessary As Material Foundation For The Higher Qualities Of The Art.

It Is Very Hard To Be Simple Enough To Be Good.

When The Night Is Darkest, The Stars Come Out.

Nor Count Compartments Of The Floors, But Mount To Paradise By The Stairway Of Surprise.