In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.
In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.
When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle when you talk to the ignorant, brag when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion.
Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .
How many of us have been attracted to reason first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.
When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold the next day it is as healthy as ever.
Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame --to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell
The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.
Fate There is no fate. Between the thought and the success God is the only agent.
There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.
Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories