Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

He who feasts every day, feasts no day.

Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value.

A quick and sound judgment, good common sense, kind feeling, and an instinctive perception of character, in these are the elements of what is called tact, which has so much to do with acceptability and success in life.

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.