An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.

Habit in most cases hardens and encrusts by taking away the keener edge of our sensations: but does it not in others quicken and refine, by giving a mechanical facility and by engrafting an acquired sense?

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.

Time,--the most independent of all things.

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.