To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

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.

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.

Those who speak always and those who never speak are equally unfit for friendship. A food proportion of the talent of listening and speaking is the base of social virtues.

He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity.