Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.

Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

The beginning is the promise of the end.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.

If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl; and a boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness without any of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's noblest work; a woman made out of a man is His meanest.