The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.
Loudness is impotence.
The man who loves with his whole heart truth will love still more he who suffers for truth.
Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak; the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.
Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
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.