When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.
The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.
If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of public expenditure. You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.
An obedient wife commands her husband.
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.
Difficulties melt away under tact.
Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system.
There can be economy only where there is efficiency.
There is no wisdom like frankness.
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.
All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character or illustrates an existence.
A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather did.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Quit the world, and the world forgets you.
All must respect those who respect themselves.
There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost.
We are taught words, not ideas.
A dark horse, which had never been thought of, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.
Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
You never observe a great intellectual movement in Europe in which the Jews do NOT greatly participate. The first Jesuits were Jews.
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so confused is that it has been written by men who are ignorant of this principle and all the knowledge it involves. . . Language and religion do not make a race--there is only one thing which makes a race, and that is blood.
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