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

We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

Every man is eloquent once in his life.

The only joy in his being mine, is that the not mine is mine.

Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world.

Private, accidental, confidential conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words.