The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.

As many suffer from too much as too little.

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

Without death in the world, existence in it would soon become, through over-population, the most frightful of curses.

In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.

The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.