The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.

Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.

Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.

We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.

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.

Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a dagger? Does not the very disorder which consumes his strength deprive him of the courage to effect his deliverance?