The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands them all. When the former is combined with tact, it is often more than a match for the latter.
Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me.
Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.
To achieve what you want, you have to be stronger than those around you
We cannot learn men from books.
Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.