That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

Enthusiasm is the engine of success.

We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables.

People say law but they mean wealth.

What the tender and poetic youth dreams to-day, and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day after is the character of nations.

All mankind love a lover.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.