In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.

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.

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.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.