People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise?

There is an ill-breeding to which, whatever our rank and nature, we are almost equally sensitive, the ill-breeding that comes from want of consideration for others.

Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble.

Success never needs an excuse.

A prudent consideration for Number One.

Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.

If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.