If you would lift me up, you've got to be on higher ground.

Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.

Really, all things and persons are related to us, but according to our nature, they act on us not at once, but in succession, andwe are made aware of their presence one at a time. All persons, all things which we have known, are here present, and many more than we see; the world is full.

A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.

I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.

A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors. There is no adaptation or universal applicability in men, but each has his special Talent, and the mastery of Successful men consists in adroitly keeping themselves where and when that turn shall be oftenest to be practiced.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant