Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

A man is a little thing whilst he works by and for himself, but, when he gives voice to the rules of love and justice, is godlike, his word is current in all countries; and all men, though his enemies, are made his friends and obey it as their own.

Nature is upheld by antagonism.

In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its cradle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness.

Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might.

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.