Everyone who does the best he can is a hero.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
Never work before breakfast; if you have to work before breakfast, eat your breakfast first.
It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.