The life of truth is cold.

There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.

Let a stoic open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves; that with the exercise of self-trust, new powers shall appear.

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.