I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.

Enthusiasm is the engine of success.

Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world.

Do you see that kitten chasing so prettily her own tail? If you could look with her eyes, you might see her surrounded with hundreds of figures performing complex dramas, with tragic and comic issues, long conversations, many characters, many ups and downs of fate.

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.