Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.

What is human is immortal!

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it

Tell me, sweet eyes, from what divinest star did ye drink in your liquid melancholy?

Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed. The savage deems it noble;but the religion of Christ, which is the sublime civilizer, emphatically condemns it. Why? Because religion ever seeks to ennoble man; and nothing so debases him as revenge.

We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.

When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion.