Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.

Avoid witticisms at the expense of others.

Be careful never to retire to rest in a room not properly ventilated.

If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it.

Manners are the root, laws only the trunk and branches. Manners are the archetypes of laws. Manners are laws in their infancy; laws are manners fully grown,--or, manners are children, which, when they grow up, become laws.

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.