As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.
Change is constant in a progressive country.
He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.
There is scarcely any popular tenet more erroneous than that which holds that when time is slow, life is dull.
That earliest shock in one's life which occurs to all of us; which first makes us think.
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Life is to short to be small.
Why should one say that the machine does not live? It breathes, for its breath forms the atmosphere of some towns.
Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it.
Silence is the mother of truth.
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
For life in general, there is but one decree; youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Life is too short to be little.
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts