Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.

How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!

Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.

Invention is totally independent of the will.

Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.

Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.

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.