Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

Do to others as you would have others do to you, inspires all men with that other maxim of natural goodness a great deal less perfect, but perhaps more useful: Do good to yourself with as little prejudice as you can to others.

One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.

The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.

Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.

As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.