One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

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

Faith is a homely, private capital; as there are public savings-banks and poor funds, out of which in times of want we can relieve the necessities of individuals, so here the faithful take their coin in peace.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

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

When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.