You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.

The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.

No nation has produced anything like his equal. There is no quality in the human mind, there is no class of topics, there is no region of thought, in which he has not soared or descended, and none in which he has not said the commanding word.

So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do thou leave as unlawful these winnings, and deal with Cause and Effect, the Chancellors of God.

In this great society wide lying around us, a critical analysis would find very few spontaneous actions. It is almost all custom and gross sense.

As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.