He who has acquired the ability, may wait securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated, and know that it will not loiter.

It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.

Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first.

Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.

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

Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.

Prosperity is something the businessmen created for politicians to take credit for