People reveal their character even in the simplest things they do. Fools do not enter a room, nor leave it, nor sit down, nor rise, nor are they silent, nor do they stand up, like people of sense and understanding.

We must confess that at present the rich predominate, but the future will be for the virtuous and ingenious.

The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others.

Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.

Don't wait to be happy to laugh... You may die and never have laughed.

Sudden love is latest cured.

How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions!