No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.

The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.

My books are friends that never fail me.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.

A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.