There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

Shall we then judge a country by the majority, or by the minority? By the minority, surely.

There is no one who does not exaggerate!

All that Adam had, all that Caesar could, you have and can do.... Build, therefore, your own world.

Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.

I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly when he ispraised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.

How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.