When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion.

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

The food of hope is meditative action.

Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.

Westward, beyond the still pleasant, but, even then, no longer solitary, hamlet of Charing, a broad space, broken here and there by scattered houses and venerable pollards, in the early spring of 1467, presented the rural scene for the sports and pastimes of the inhabitants of Westminister and London.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.