As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing with it the rest of the character.

As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing with it the rest of the character.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase "profound cunning," has always seemed to me a contradiction in terms. I never knew a cunning mind which was not either shallow, or on some point diseased.

Now, it is a good sanitary principle, that what is curative is preventive.

There are no such self-deceivers as those who think they reason when they only feel.

Have the courage to appear poor and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.