Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.

Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.

Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities are to our wants as Falstaff's pennyworth of bread to his any quantity of sack.

Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.