Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.

Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men.

To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to be idle or industrious, vicious or virtuous, is but with a view of procrastinating the one or the other.

All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.

It is better to make friends than adversaries of a conquered race.

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.