We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.

Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]