General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser.

That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.

It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

Not gold, but only man can make a people great and strong; men who, for truth and honor's sake, stand fast and suffer long.

There is a persuasion in the soul of man that he is here for cause, that he was put down in this place by the Creator to do the work for which he inspires him, that thus he is an overmatch for all antagonists that could combine against him.