The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a twelvemonth.

What is human is immortal!

Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is his corrupt commissariat; reform the commissariat and the army will do its duty.

Love creates, love cements, love enters and harmonizes all things.

In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men as a natural food.

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.

The worst part of an eminent man's conversation is, nine times out of ten, to be found in that part by which he means to be clever.