One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors.

Could we know by what strange circumstances a man's genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable items in his education were never entered in the bills which his father paid for.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Business first, then pleasure.

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

Of all the virtues necessary to the completion of the perfect man, there is none to be more delicately implied and less ostentatiously vaunted than that of exquisite feeling or universal benevolence.

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.