Do what you know and perception is converted into character.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

The art of conversation, or the qualification for a good companion, is a certain self-control, which now holds the subject, now lets it go, with a respect for the emergencies of the moment.

When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.

Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.