Treat Your Friend As A Spectacle.

I Find It More Credible, Since It Is Anterior Information, That One Man Should Know Heaven, As The Chinese Say, Than That So Many Men Should Know The World.

Self-trust Is The First Secret Of Success.

No Man Can Be Criticised But By A Greater Than He. Do Not, Then, Read The Reviews.

Instead Of Feeling A Poverty When We Encounter A Great Man, Let Us Treat The New Comer Like A Travelling Geologist, Who Passes Through Our Estate, And Shows Us Good Slate, Or Limestone, Or Anthracite, In Our Brush Pasture.

An Orator Or Author Is Never Successful Till He Has Learned To Make His Words Smaller Than His Ideas.