Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.

Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.

Every realm of nature is marvelous.

Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.

Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . .