People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.

No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

A new degree of intellectual power seems cheap at any price.

I know of no such unquestionable badge and ensign of a sovereign mind as that of tenacity of purpose.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

What is it men love in Genius, but its infinite hope, which degrades all it has done? Genius counts all its miracles poor and short. Its own idea it never executed.

Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,--a certain robust and radiant physical health; or--shall I say?--great volumes of animal heat.