There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise.

A man's heart must be very frivolous if the possession of fame rewards the labor to attain it. For the worst of reputation is that it is not palpable or present - we do not feel or see or taste it.

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.

The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a twelvemonth.

The heart of a girl is like a convent--the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door.

The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment.