Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

The gift without the giver is rare.

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.

It seems to me that the bane of our country is a profession of faith either with no basis of real belief, or with no proper examination of the grounds on which the creed is supposed to rest.

It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.