Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul..

The universal line of distinction between the strong and the weak is that one persists; the other hesitates, falters, trifles, and at last collapses ….

Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments..

Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things..

No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one age and boasts of t….

The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets..

Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps..

What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their embalmed bodies preserved in….

God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our thanksgivings..

A politician weakly and amiably in the right is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong. You cannot, by tying an opinion,….

Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention..

As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot….

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time..

Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side..

God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer..

The contemplation of beauty in nature, in art, in literature, in human character, diffuses through our being a soothing and subtle joy, by which the ….

Wit is an unexpected explosion of thought..

The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, springing not from self-conceit, but from an intense identification of….

A large portion of human beings live not so much in themselves as in what they desire to be. They create what is called an ideal character, in an ide….

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline..

True wisdom, indeed, springs from the wide brain which is fed from the deep heart; and it is only when age warms its withering conceptions at the mem….