Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said.

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

Good humor is the sunshine of the mind.

Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity.

Fortune is said to be blind, but her favorites never are. Ambition has the eye of the eagle, prudence that of the lynx; the first looks through the air, the last along the ground.

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

The fewer blows, the better. Brave men fight if they must; wise men never fight if they can help it.