The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible… — William Matthews Anxiety Copy Share Image
Talking, is a digestive process which is absolutely essential to the mental constitution of the man who devours many books. — William Matthews Book Copy Share Image
Criminals are opportunists. If you've got a booming market, they're going to get away with more fraud. — William Matthews Criminals Copy Share Image
Intercourse is after all man's best teacher. "Know thyself" is an excellent maxim; but even self-knowledge cannot be perfected in closets and… — William Matthews Best teacher Copy Share Image
Stoutly as we may affirm that our disasters and vices are chargeable to luck, we never dream of ascribing our meritorious deeds,… — William Matthews Agency Copy Share Image
There is one curious fact noticeable in regard to this thing called "luck," which is, that while it is made responsible for… — William Matthews Affair Copy Share Image
There is a wide difference between general acquaintance and companionship. You may salute a man and exchange compliments with him daily, yet… — William Matthews Acquaintance Copy Share Image
One wellcultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many… — William Matthews Attention Copy Share Image
The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's. — William Matthews Disappointment Copy Share Image
As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns… — William Matthews Contrary Copy Share Image
The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument. — William Matthews Ability Copy Share Image
What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the… — William Matthews Appeals Copy Share Image
Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous. — William Matthews Chance Copy Share Image
The fullest instruction, and the fullest enjoyment are never derived from books, till we have ventilated the ideas thus obtained in free… — William Matthews Book Copy Share Image
“I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen, and so I swung into action and wrote a poem, and it was… — William Matthews Books Copy Share Image
Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work. — William Matthews Business Copy Share Image
Strive for excellence in your calling, but as a subsidiary to this: Do not fail to enrich your whole capital as man.… — William Matthews Calling Copy Share Image
One well-cultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth one hundred shallow faculties. — William Matthews Faculty Copy Share Image
The countenance may be rightly defined as the title page which heralds the contents of the human volume, but like other title… — William Matthews Countenance Copy Share Image
We all have two childhoods, the unhappy one and the happy one. — William Matthews Childhood Copy Share Image
The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance. — William Matthews Blessing Copy Share Image
Be methodical if you would succeed in business, or in anything. Have a work for every moment, and mind the moment's work.… — William Matthews Application Copy Share Image
With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something… — William Matthews Civilized Copy Share Image
It is not, of course, the subject that is or isn't dull, but the quality of attention that we do or do… — William Matthews Attention Copy Share Image
