The glance is natural magic. The mysterious communication established across a house between two entire strangers, moves all the springs of wonder.

Great men exist that there might be greater men.

The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.

Stand guard at the portal of your mind.

A determined man, by his very attitude and the tone of his voice, puts a stop to defeat, and begins to conquer.

Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to detect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions. Society is very swift in its instincts, and if you do not belong to it, resists and sneers at you, or quietly drops you.

But it is a cold, lifeless business when you go to the shops to buy something, which does not represent your life and talent, but a goldsmith's.