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

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

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.

Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?

Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals.

Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.