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

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

True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.

Softness of smile indicates softness of character.

Many very intelligent agreeable persons have warts on the forehead, not brown, nor very large, between the eyebrows, which have nothing in them offensive or disgusting. - But a large brown wart on the upper lip, especially when it is bristly, will be found in no person who is not defective in something essential, or at least remarkable for some conspicuous failing.

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

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