Attention Quote by William Matthews

The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of…

— William Matthews

Talking, is a digestive process which is absolutely essential to the mental constitution of the man who devours many books.

— William Matthews

Criminals are opportunists. If you've got a booming market, they're going to get away with more fraud.

— William Matthews

Intercourse is after all man's best teacher. "Know thyself" is an excellent maxim; but even self-knowledge cannot be perfected in closets and cloisters--nor amid…

— William Matthews

Stoutly as we may affirm that our disasters and vices are chargeable to luck, we never dream of ascribing our meritorious deeds, in the…

— William Matthews

There is one curious fact noticeable in regard to this thing called "luck," which is, that while it is made responsible for any turn…

— William Matthews

There is a wide difference between general acquaintance and companionship. You may salute a man and exchange compliments with him daily, yet know nothing…

— William Matthews

Go to the desk. Stay at the desk. Thrive at the desk.

— William Matthews

One wellcultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are…

— William Matthews

The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.

— William Matthews

As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its…

— William Matthews

The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.

— William Matthews