Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.

Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

We grizzle every day. I see no need of it. Whilst we converse with what is above us, we do not grow old, but grow young.

It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.

Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health; or--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.

Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.