The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.

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

He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.

The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.

Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.

He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.

Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.