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

Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

Adhesion to one idea is monomania; to few, slavery.

The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found.

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less