When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
From Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.
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.
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
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