The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.

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.

What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.

True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.

Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.

The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.

As you treat your body, so your house, your domestics, your enemies, your friends - Dress is a table of your contents.