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

The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.

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

Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to.

He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.