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.

Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.

Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

Business first, then pleasure.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.