Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.

In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.

Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future

The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.

Give all to love: Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the Muse,- Nothing refuse.

All the fairy tales of Aladdin, or the invisible Gyges, or the talisman that opens kings' palaces, or the enchanted halls underground or in the sea, are only fictions to indicated the one miracle of intellectual enlargement.