God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our thanksgivings.

Cervantes shrewdly advises to lay a bridge of silver for a flying enemy.

But the conceit of one's self and the conceit of one's hobby are hardly more prolific of eccentricity than the conceit of one's money. Avarice, the most hateful and wolfish of all the hard, cool, callous dispositions of selfishness, has its own peculiar caprices and crotchets. The ingenuities of its meanness defy all the calculations of reason, and reach the miraculous in subtlety.

Talent is full of thoughts, Genius is thought. Talent is a cistern, Genius a fountain.

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.

There is a serious and resolute egotism that makes a man interesting to his friends and formidable to his opponents.

True wisdom, indeed, springs from the wide brain which is fed from the deep heart; and it is only when age warms its withering conceptions at the memory of its youthful fire, when it makes experience serve aspiration, and knowledge illumine the difficult paths through which thoughts thread their way into facts,--it is only then that age becomes broadly and nobly wise.