Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.
Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity.
The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.
A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.
There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise.
When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.
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.
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.
Women love energy and grand results.
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.
Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.
There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.
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.
He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future.
The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who sets up for a saint is sure to be a sinner; and a man who boasts that he is a sinner is sure to have some feeble, maudlin, snivelling bit of saintship about him which is enough to make him a humbug.
The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.
It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it.
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