Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

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.

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

He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigour and decision. - Who hastens to the end is silent: loudness is impotence.

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.