Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Keep unscathed the good name; keep out of peril the honor without which even your battered old soldier who is hobbling into his grave on half-pay and a wooden leg would not change with Achilles.

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.

Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said.

Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.

Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity.

Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought.