One wellcultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are clamoring for attention, is concentration-to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left.

Criminals are opportunists. If you've got a booming market, they're going to get away with more fraud.

The countenance may be rightly defined as the title page which heralds the contents of the human volume, but like other title pages, it sometimes puzzles, often misleads, and often says nothing to the purpose.

What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?

Talking, is a digestive process which is absolutely essential to the mental constitution of the man who devours many books.

God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.

Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work.