Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.

Every man should let out all the length of all the reigns; should find or make a frank and healthy expression of what force and meaning is in him.

The Times are the masquerade of the eternities; trivial to the dull, tokens of noble and majestic agents to the wise; the receptacle in which the Past leaves its history; the quarry out of which the genius of today is building up the Future.

To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.