What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.

It may, indeed, be said that sympathy exists in all minds, as Faraday has discovered that magnetism exists in all metals; but a certain temperature is required to develop the hidden property, whether in the metal or the mind.

The more a man desirous to pass at a value above his worth can contrast, by dignified silence, the garrulity of trivial minds, the more the world will give him credit for the wealth which he does not possess.

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.