Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue.

Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task

In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

Of course, this has its good side as well as its bad one. As we become permanent drunkards by so may separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work. Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he may safely leave the final result to itself.

As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.

Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.

The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.