Consistency is the bugbear that frightens little minds.

No institution will be better than the institutor.

The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.

What a new face courage puts on everything!