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

He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.

It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.

True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.

Wisdom is the repose of the mind.

Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.

Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.