A book may be as great a thing as a battle.
Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
Be thine own privy counsellor.
The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right.
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.