Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Courage multiplies the chances of success by sometimes making opportunities, and always availing itself of them; and in this sense Fortune may be said to favor fools by those who, however prudent in their opinion, are deficient in valor and enterprise.

Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.

The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.

Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.