Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.

What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?

The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after.

Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.