No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.

I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.

An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, for power. The human mind is aspiring, impatient of inferiority, and eager for preeminence and control.