The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Intellectually, as politically, the direction of all true progress is towards greater freedom, and along an endless succession of ideas.

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.