As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.

To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgement , that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.

And still, laughter is akin to weeping.

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.

Those who speak always and those who never speak are equally unfit for friendship. A food proportion of the talent of listening and speaking is the base of social virtues.

Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.