Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.

It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found.

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.

Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

Bad taste is a species of bad morals.