Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.

Popular privileges are consistent with a state of society in which there is great inequality of position. Democratic rights, on the contrary, demand that there should be equality of condition as the fundamental basis of the society they regulate.

A man's fate is his own temper; and according to that will be his opinion as to the particular manner in which the course of events is regulated. A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.

There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.

To be famous when you are young is the fortune of the gods.

There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts