Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great.

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

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

As many suffer from too much as too little.

The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.

To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.

Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.