Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.

In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear.

Self-confidence is not hope; it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failure of many hopes and the non-realization of many fears.

Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.

Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.