When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.

To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.

I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.

The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.

The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.

The more you do, the more you can do.

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.