Beware of biting jests; the more truth they carry with them, the greater wounds they give, the greater smarts they cause, and the greater scars they leave behind them.

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.

The man who loves with his whole heart truth will love still more he who suffers for truth.

Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

Loudness is impotence.