A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape; it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one.

Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence.

The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.

The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.

To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.

The freer you feel yourself in the presence of another, the more free is he...

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.