There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.

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.

Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature's joke, and therefore literature's. True prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world.

The goof man, in dealing with his people, taxes them with luxury.

The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.

The world belongs to the energetic.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.