Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.

Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?

Thought is valuable in proportion as it is generative.

When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion.

We must remember how apt man is to extremes--rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust.

The food of hope is meditative action.

Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.