Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.

Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

Be saving, but not at the cost of all liberality. Have the soul of a king and the hand of a wise economist.

Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.

The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.