Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.

There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.

Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.