What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.

It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.

The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.

Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it; the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.

Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm.