When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.

Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.

The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.

It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.

The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.