Strive, while improving your one talent, to enrich your whole capital as a man. It is in this way that you escape from the wretched narrow-mindedness which is the characteristic of every one who cultivates his specialty alone.

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.

Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is his corrupt commissariat; reform the commissariat and the army will do its duty.

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

Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves.

When a man is not amused, he feels an involuntary contempt for those who are.

If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.