The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.

In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.

Cautiously avoid speaking of the domestic affairs either of yourself, or of other people. Yours are nothing to them but tedious gossip; and theirs are nothing to you.

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.

Always make the best of the best, and never make bad worse.

Love has been not unaptly compared to the small-pox, which most people have sooner or later.

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but let them feel at the same time the steadiness of your just resentment for there is a great difference between bearing malice, which is always ungenerous, and a resolute self-defense which is ever prudent and justifiable.