A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

The more a man writes, the more he can write.

The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.

I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what is to be done in given circumstances and does it. He does not beat about the bush for difficulties or excuses, but goes the shortest and most effectual way to work to attain his own ends, or to accomplish a useful object.

It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.

Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.