The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.

Let a man once see himself as others see him, and all enthusiasm vanishes from his heart.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a person has thrown up his or her hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

History: gossip well told.

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.