Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all ….

Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses..

Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules..

The people are to be taken in very small doses..

Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom..

Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well..

Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far..

Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love Go….

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be..

It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine..

Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to be unfit to be his….

It is better to suffer injustice than to do it..

Divine persons are character born, or, to borrow a phrase from Napoleon, they are victory organized..

In this our talking America, we are ruined by our good nature and listening on all sides. This compliance takes away the power ofbeing greatly useful..

Physical force has no value, where there is nothing else. Snow in snow-banks, fire in volcanoes and solfataras is cheap. The luxury of ice is in trop….

As soon as a child has left the room his strewn toys become affecting..

The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the be….

Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?.

All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its….

Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey..