I like people who can do things

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now. Greatness appeals to the future.

Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

Aristotle and Plato are reckoned the respective heads of two schools. A wise man will see that Aristotle platonizes.

It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and bandage ofsociety; because a man will not lay up an estate for children any longer than whilst he believes them to be his own.

No man can help another without helping himself.