There is also something excellent in every audience,--the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.

There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.

The world is a divine dream, from which we may presently awake to the glories and certainties of day.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars

I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.