Example has far more followers than reason.

Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it.

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect.

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.