You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

Wisdom is the repose of the mind.

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

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

He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd or noisy, impotent patriots.

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.

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.