Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.

When the soul communes with itself the lip is silent.

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

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.

Keep unscathed the good name; keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into his grave on half-pay and a wooden leg would not change with Achilles.