Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.

Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgement on the few.

In the hour of strait and need, we measure men's stature not by the body, but the soul!

It may, indeed, be said that sympathy exists in all minds, as Faraday has discovered that magnetism exists in all metals; but a certain temperature is required to develop the hidden property, whether in the metal or the mind.

Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought.

We must remember how apt man is to extremes--rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust.