It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero.

Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air.

Silence is a still noise.

There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.

True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does.