Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

Amongst such as out of cunning hear all and talk little, be sure to talk less; or if you must talk, say little.

A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his fortune; it is not completed before fifty. He falls to building in his old age, and dies by the time his house is in a condition to be painted and glazed.

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.

Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy.