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

To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.

The more a man desirous to pass at a value above his worth can contrast, by dignified silence, the garrulity of trivial minds, the more the world will give him credit for the wealth which he does not possess.

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame - to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.

Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.

A prudent consideration for Number One.

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.