Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess.
Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince.
Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.
Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland.
Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.