There is a noble forgetfulness-that which does not remember injuries.

A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.

Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know their use. Those who lose them by accident or fraud know their vanity. And those who experience the difficulties and dangers of preserving them know their perplexities.

Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.

When a person feels disposed to over estimate his own importance, let him remember that mankind got along very well before his birth, and that in all probability they will they will get along very well after his death.

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

Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things.