In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As "fail". - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Night, to the earnest soul, opens the Bible of the Universe, and on the leaves of Heaven is written,—"God is everywhere!"

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

The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrows we have undergone.