In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.

If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change things for you if I could; As I can't you must take them as they are.

If language is not rectified, words do not correspond to meaning, and if words do not correspond to meaning, our deeds cannot be accomplished.

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does just the reverse of this.

That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared.