You must be respectable, if you will be respected.
Men are much more unwilling to have their weaknesses and their imperfections known than their crimes.
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
Wear your knowledge like your watch - in you pocket - and don't pull it out just for show.
Real merit of any kind cannot long be concealed; it will be discovered, and nothing can depreciate it but a man exhibiting it himself. It may not always be rewarded as it ought; but it will always be known.