Art and science have their meeting point in method.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

If you wished to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.