The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
A good man showeth favor, and lendeth.
I'm not at all stuck up . . . although, judging from those around me, I have every right to be.
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.
We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.
To throw away an honest friend is, as it were, to throw your life away.
Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.
O Lord, you know what is best for me. Let this or that be done, as you please. Give what you will, how much you will, and when you will.
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
There is but one art, to omit.
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
Tis the ignorant who boast.
Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
When possible make the decisions now, even if action is in the future. A revised decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment.
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical.
If deeds are wanting, all words appear mere vanity and emptiness.