Cunning is strength withheld.

When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.

The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments.

Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world. It is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path.... He is never happy nor strong until he finds it, keeps it.

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.