Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.

A hug is worth a thousand words.

Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved by a true estimation of another's weakness, thousands have been destroyed by a false appreciation of their own strength.

A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of his deceiver; the wise man is silent, and denies that triumph to an enemy which he would hardly concede to a friend; a triumph that proclaims his own defeat.

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.

In answering an opponent, arrange your ideas, but not your words.

The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.