A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.
The intellectual man requires a fine bait; the sots are easily amused. But everybody is drugged with his own frenzy, and the pageant marches at all hours, with music and banner and badge.
There is always room for a person of force and they make room for many.
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.
So far as a person thinks; they are free.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.
A man’s library is a sort of harem.
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.
The dice of God are always loaded.
It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.
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