To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.

For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.

What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.

Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.

Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.