There is hope in extravagance, there is none in routine.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

There is no event greater in life than the appearance of new persons about our hearth, except it be the progress of the characterwhich draws them.

Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.

Every great man is unique.

To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.

Headwinds are sore vexations and the more passengers the sorer.