Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize others only in private 6. Stay close to the action Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.

Justice, not the majority, should rule.

An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

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.

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.