A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.

A person seldom falls sick, but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You...

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the...

Books are for nothing but to inspire

We are wiser than we know.

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it...

Does not… the ear of Handel predict the witchcraft of harmonic sound?

People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars. He who should inspire and lead his...

A man’s power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate...

Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame...

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Two man talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.

Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago but it is put to better use

There is always safety in valor.

A fly is as untamable as a hyena.

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze

Every reform was once a private opinion, and when it shall be a private opinion again, it will solve the problem of the age.