Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give twenty thousand pounds for a good one, because he could immediately make double that sum by means of it.

Anger is practical awkwardness.

Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.

If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.