Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.

A man often pays dear for a small frugality.

The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.