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.

A gift--its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it; the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything; this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies.

Malice is poisoned by her own venom.