If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.

Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.

A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe.

Malice is poisoned by her own venom.

It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.