Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Little things affect little minds.

He has not a single redeeming defect.

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourselves; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.