"The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck."

"There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream."

"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great."

"Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich."

"Our best thoughts come from others."

"Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret."

"Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France."

"As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way."

"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing."

"Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain."

"A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles."

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow."

"For every benefit you receive a tax is levied."

"Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant."

"The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself."

"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."

"Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none."

"Money often costs too much."

"The sky is the daily bread of the eyes."

"There is a tendency for things to right themselves."

"The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers."