Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.
When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.
Women love energy and grand results.
The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact, and a plain soundness of judgement, which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she be really your friend, will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute. She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing: for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.
Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.
Business first, then pleasure.
Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man.
The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike the guilty, it hits someone else. As every crime creates a law, so in turn every law creates a crime.
Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is his corrupt commissariat; reform the commissariat and the army will do its duty.
Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.
Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.
Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
Master books, but do not let them master you.
The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it.
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.
Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.
He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.
A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid.
When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
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