"There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius."

"Do not mistake energy for enthusiasm; the softest speakers are often the most enthusiastic of men."

"Our knowledge of human nature is for the most part empirical; and it would often be better, if, instead of endeavouri…"

"The most enthusiastic man in a cause is rarely chosen as the leader."

"Tact is the result of refined sympathy."

"How often we should stop in the pursuit of folly, if it were not for the difficulties that continually beckon us onwa…"

"No man ever praised two persons equally—and pleased them both."

"The knowledge of others which experience gives us, is of slight value when compared with that which we obtain from ha…"

"Even the most careless people have a sort of aversion to signing things which they have never considered."

"The unfortunate Ladurlad did not desire the sleep that for ever fled his weary eyelids with more earnestness than mos…"