You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.

There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.

I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.

It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.

The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.

He who can not learn to love must flatter.

Time flies, and what is past is done.