All mankind love a lover.

A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.

Enlarge not thy destiny, said the oracle: endeavor not to do more than is given thee in charge.

Generalization is always a new influx of divinity into the mind. Hence the thrill that attends it.

The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.

If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms, for they have not so much madness left in their brains, you have a nation of lovers, of benefactors, of true, great, and able men.

The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.