The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.

The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal.

Words are alive. Cut them and they bleed.

Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that takes fear out of the heart, knowledge and use, which is knowledge in practice. They can conquer who believe they can. It is he who has done the deed once who does not shrink from attempting again.

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.