Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
True valor is like honesty; it enters into all that a man sees and does.
Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition.
Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.
People who have nothing to say are never at a loss in talking.
Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner.