Defeat serves to enlighten us.

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.

Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.

A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape; it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one.

Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.