Talent does things tolerably well; genius does then intolerably better

The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.

Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.