It is the work of fancy to enlarge but of judgment to shorten and contract and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law where there is no law there is no freedom.

Failure sometimes enlarges the spirit. You have to fall back upon humanity and God.

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

Courage enlarges cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

As winter strips the leaves from around us so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.