The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda-these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.

All great successes are the triumph of persistence.

The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind?

The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.

The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.