Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.
Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.
You cannot ensure the gratitude of others for a favour conferred upon them in the way which is most agreeable to yourself.
A great many wise sayings have been uttered about the effects of solitary retirement; but the motives which impel men to seek it are not more various than the effects which it produces on different individuals. One thing is certain, that those who can with truth affirm that they are "never less alone than when alone," might generally add that they never feel more lonely than when not alone.
Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.
We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.
Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion.
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.
When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events of our lives originated in the most trifling circumstances; how the beginning of our greatest happiness or greatest misery is to be attributed to a delay, to an accident, to a mistake; we learn a lesson of profound humility.
It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.
Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to the last moment, to bring before a wise man arguments that may entirely change his opinion.
The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm.
Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.
The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.
Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.
The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.
No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both.
A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.
The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for you to discover.
Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.
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