The age does not believe in great men, because it does not possess any.
Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.
What we call the heart is a nervous sensation, like shyness, which gradually disappears in society. It is fervent in the nursery, strong in the domestic circle, tumultuous at school.
One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever.
As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.
Money is power, and rare are the heads that can withstand the possession of great power.
Great men should think of opportunity and not of time. That is the excuse of feeble and puzzled spirits.
An author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
A practical man is a man who practices the errors of his forefathers.
Worry – a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.
Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything.
I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.
Here’s to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.
Nothing can withstand the power of the human will if it is willing to stake its very existence to the extent of its purpose.
There is magic in the memory of schoolboy friendships; it softens the heart, and even affects the nervous system of those who have no heart.
What art was to the ancient world, Science is to the modern; the distinctive faculty. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded to the beautiful.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.
Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.
I have lived long enough to know that the evening glow of love has its own riches and splendour.
The question is this – Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.