Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones.

Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.

Persons are oftentimes misled in regard to their choice of dress by attending to the beauty of colors, rather than selecting such colors as may increase their own beauty.