A prudent consideration for Number One.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

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

The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have to penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

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

A man is already of consequence in the world when it is known that we can implicitly rely upon him. Often I have known a man to be preferred in stations of honor and profit because he had this reputation: When he said he knew a thing, he knew it, and when he said he would do a thing, he did it.