Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.

It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.