Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.

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

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

God builds his temple in the heart on the ruins of churches and religions.

Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay

It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.