Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.

I like people who can do things

If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.

Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.

Power dwells with cheerfulness.

The right eloquence needs no bell to call the people together, and no constable to keep them.

The light by which we see in this world comes out from the soul of the observer. Wherever any noble sentiment dwelt, it made the faces and houses around to shine. Nay, the powers of this busy brain are miraculous and illimitable.