Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
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.
Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
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.
The Management of money is, in much, the management of self. If heaven allotted to each man seven guardian angels, five of them, at least, would be found night and day hovering over his pockets.
The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.
It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.
Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.
The Almighty proves his existence by creating.
Nothing ages like laziness.
In science, address the few, in literature the many. In science, the few must dictate opinion to the many; in literature, the many, sooner or later, force their judgement on the few.
Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.
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.
The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike the guilty, it hits someone else. As every crime creates a law, so in turn every law creates a crime.
The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
I did not fall into love - I rose into love.
A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.
Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.
Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.
When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
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.
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