Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny.
The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint.
The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.
It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.
Self-confidence is not hope; it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failure of many hopes and the non-realization of many fears.
He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.
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.
Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgement on the few.
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.
Love thou rose, yet leave it on its stem.
Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
Master books, but do not let them master you.
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.
How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.
If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.
Money never can be well managed if sought solely through the greed of money for its own sake. In all meanness there is a defect of intellect as well as of heart. And even the cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
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