I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

Commonsense is the wick of the candle.

Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being? There are men, who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations withthem, and lead the activity of the human race. And if there be such a tie, that, wherever the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental powers, and, where they appear, immense instrumentalities organize around them.

How much finer things are in composition than alone.

Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.