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.

We love it because it is self dependent, self derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person.

The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light.

The miracles of genius always rest on profound convictions which refuse to be analyzed.

There are men whose language is strong and defying enough, yet their eyes and their actions ask leave of other men to live.

Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.

On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and merely defensive of property. It vindicates no right, it aspires to no real good, it brands no crime, it proposes no generous policy, it does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts, nor foster religion, nor establish schools, nor encourage science, nor emancipate the slave, nor befriend the poor, or the Indian, or the immigrant.