The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.

An individual has a healthy personality to the exact degree to which they have the propensity to look for the good in every situation.

We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.

Every book is good to read which sets the reader in a working mood.

There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.

We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?

A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we can pardonpride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands, or moves, or leaves a shadow on the wall, or sits for a portrait to the artist, she confers a favor on the world.