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

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.

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.

As you treat your body, so your house, your domestics, your enemies, your friends - Dress is a table of your contents.

Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.

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

It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to game; but it is impossi∣ble that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man.