Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illess is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.
Time is money.
In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves For a bright manhood, there is no such word As fail.
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.
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.
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.
A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.
The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
