The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice..

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought..

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success..

The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance..

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environ….

To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of livi….

The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it..

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order..

Tolerance is the only real test of civilization..

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no tr….

If you are often deceived by those around you, you may be sure that you deserve to be deceived; and that instead of railing at the general falseness ….

If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely..

Thoughts there are, not to be translated into any language, and spirits alone can read them..

The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enter….

The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for you to discover..

It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good accoun….

Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture..

More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper..

Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues..

People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers..

It takes a great man to make a great listener.