Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.

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

It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact, and a plain soundness of judgement, which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she be really your friend, will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute. She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing: for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.