Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may set up a partnership with honesty.

Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?

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

Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.

Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.

Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak; the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.