Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to- morrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them.

Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.

People who know how to act are never preachers.

Magic and all that is ascribed to it is a deep presentiment of the powers of science.

Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.

The enthusiast always finds the master, the masters, whom he seeks. Always genius seeks genius, desires nothing so much as to be a pupil and to find those who can lend it aid to perfect itself.