“Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay,”
“No man can help another without helping himself.”
“Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.”
“All the great speakers were bad speaker at first.”
“Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.”
“Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.”
“We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.”
“What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.”
“The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.”
“Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.”
“We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.”
“Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.”
“We do what we must, and call it by the best names.”
“The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.”
“A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.”
“There is a tendency for things to right themselves.”
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
“Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.”
“An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.”
“Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.”
“No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.”
“The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.”
“Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.”
“Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.”
“Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.”
“The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.”
“A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.”
“Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.”
“In nature nothing can be given. All things are sold.”
“I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency.”