Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!
It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.
