All finery is a sign of littleness.

A gift--its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it; the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.

He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd or noisy, impotent patriots.

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

As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.

No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.

Half talent is no talent.