To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

Wine is bottled poetry.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.