Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.

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

Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.

He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he chooses to appear to want.

Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence is more than wise or just; he is, were he a beggar, of more than royal blood, he is of celestial descent.

When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek.