It is one soul which animates all men.

I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though itwere only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.

The affirmative class monopolize the homage of mankind. They originate and execute all the great feats. What a force was coiled upin the skull of Napoleon!

One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.

Fear always springs from ignorance.