A man who does not love praise is not a full man.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

A man without mirth is like wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it turns.

Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.

The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.