Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything; this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.

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.

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

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

She neglects her heart who too closely studies her glass.

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.

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