We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.
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.
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.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.
The classic literature is always modern.
Every great man exhibits the talent of organization or construction, whether it be in a poem, a philosophical system, a policy, or a strategy. And without method there is no organization nor construction.
Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.
Business first, then pleasure.
That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen. To be a man of the world we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.
Fate! There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent. Fate is not the ruler, but the servant of Providence.
Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.
There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.
What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
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.
Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.
The mind profits by the wrecks of every passion.
The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a twelvemonth.
Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.
Better than fame is still the wish for fame, the constant training for a glorious strife.
He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense.
The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.
The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it
Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.
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.
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