It is said that every man has his peculiar ambition, whether it be true or not, it is at least certain that ambition either finds or makes every man his enemy.
The habit of looking forward to the future as something which must necessarily be better than the present, is one of the best consolations to the human mind in this vale of tears.
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
To be thrown upon one’s own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.
