Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow,--whether raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your grandest of levellers. The man who would be always superior should be always apathetic.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature the oldest.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

The food of hope is meditative action.

In early youth, if we find it difficult to control our feelings, so we find it difficult to vent them in the presence of others. On the spring side of twenty, if anything affects us, we rush to lock ourselves up in our room, or get away into the street or the fields; in our earlier years we are still the savages of nature, and we do as the poor brutes do. The wounded stag leaves the herd; and if there is anything on a dog's faithful heart, he slinks away into a corner.

Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.

The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.