A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power..

Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is….

Master books, but do not let them master you..

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few..

Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can..

If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing..

Nothing ages like laziness..

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it..

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best..

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose..

He whom God hath gifted with a love of retirement possesses, as it were, an extra sense..

Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular..

It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In woman there is at once a subtle de….

Ambition has no rest..

Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny..

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 f….

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 failu….

Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely..

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, ….

Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes..

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy..