One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.

The classic literature is always modern.

Remedy your deficiencies, and your merits will take care of themselves. Every man has in him good and evil. His good is his valiant army, his evil is his corrupt commissariat; reform the commissariat and the army will do its duty.

Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the statue of marble whose nakedness the eye can behold without shame and offence!

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry to a woman.