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

The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.

It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he believes as a matter of general conviction, but it is not so with what he utters in the freedom of conversation. In that he may only express the feeling of the moment, and not his settled judgment, or matured opinion.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

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.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

Tis but a short journey across the isthmus of Now.