The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on.

Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.

Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Men who make money rarely saunter; men who save money rarely swagger.

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.