Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to do is projected in our imagination, quite outside ourselves, and into the future. We are attracted to what is already ours in secret. Thus passionate anticipation transforms what is indeed possible into dreamt-for reality.

A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.

Whatever we think and say is wonderfully better for our spirits and trust in another mouth.

No man ever came to an experience which was satiating, but his good is tidings of a better. Onward and onward!

A man often pays dear for a small frugality.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Repose and cheerfulness is the badge of the gentleman; repose in energy.