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

Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.

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.

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.

It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.

Example has far more followers than reason.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.