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

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

Softness of smile indicates softness of character.

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

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.

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

The policy of adapting one's self to circumstances makes all ways smooth.