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.

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.

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

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.

He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.

He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.

Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.