A man who cannot win fame in big own age will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. True, there are some half-dozen exceptions to this truth among millions of myriads that attest it; but what man of common sense would invest any large amount of hope in so unpromising a lottery?

He who sees his heir in his own child, carries his eye over hopes and possessions lying far beyond his gravestone, viewing his life, even here, as a period but closed with a comma. He who sees his heir in another man's child sees the full stop at the end of the sentence.

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.

Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles.

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.