No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

It is in the stomach of plants that development begins, and ends in the circles of the universe. 'Tis a long scale from the gorilla to the gentleman,--from the gorilla to Plato, Newton, Shakespeare,--to the sanctities of religion, the refinements of legislation, the summit of science, art, and poetry. The beginnings are slow and infirm, but it is an always accelerated march.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

Every man is the inlet and may become the outlet of all there is in God.

Tis weak and vicious people who cast the blame on Fate. The right use of Fate is to bring up our conduct to the loftiness of nature.

Every natural action is graceful.

To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.