The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.

To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow.