One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.

I hate to be a kicker, I always long for peace, But the wheel that does the squeaking, is the one that gets the grease.

Advice can be like cod liver oil, easy enough to administer but not so pleasant to take for anybody.

When the truth is in your way, you are on the wrong road.

Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.

Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition.