Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his specialty alone.

Political freedom is, or ought to be, the best guaranty for the safety and continuance of spiritual, mental, and civil freedom. It is the combination of numbers to secure the liberty to each one.

Punctuality is a virtue, If you don't mind being lonely.

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

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.

Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.

Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.