Prepare yourself for the world, as athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do.

Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster: and even polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

There will never be a better time to start quitting smoking than today

May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer, or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!

If you wish particularly to gain the good graces and affection of certain people, men or women, try to discover their most striking merit, if they have one, and their dominant weakness, for every one has his own, then do justice to the one, and a little more than justice to the other.

A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.

Fear manifested invites danger.