Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.

The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.

Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading; to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.

There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.

Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about "business," with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any "business" accomplished in these circumstances?

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.