Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.

Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?

Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings.

Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.