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Fifteen minutes a day devoted to self-improvement, will be felt at the end of the year.
I have found repeatedly, of late years, that I cannot fish without falling a little in self respect.
When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defence strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him keep step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
There is only one good, that is, knowledge, and only one evil, that is, ignorance.
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilisation.
Examinations are formidable things, even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers.
Men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to lead the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling, and spending their lives like serfs.
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.