A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.

His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.