Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.

I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.

You are, when all is done-just what you are.

To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death, nature will give me another form of existence when the present can no longer sustain my spirit.

While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.