Common sense, alas in spite of our educational institutions, is a rare commodity.

Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!

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

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.

A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the friend who is the first to quote it to us. Whoever adopts and circulates a just thought, participates in the merit that originated it.