We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

When it is darkest, we can see the stars.