A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill

'Tis good-will makes intelligence.

Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.

The growth of the intellect is spontaneous in every expansion. The mind that grows could not predict the times, the means, the mode of that spontaneity. God enters by a private door into every individual.

Concentration is the secret of strengths in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

Character is higher than intellect.