“Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none.”

“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”

“When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practical man relies on the language of the first.”

“One of the most beautiful compensations in life is that no person can help another without helping themselves”

“There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk to much.”

“It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”

“Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.”