Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

Wear your knowledge like your watch - in you pocket - and don't pull it out just for show.

Wrongs are often forgiven; but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.

An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.

Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of decorum;at least they will lose something of their natural turpitude.

Our self-love is mortified, when we think our opinions, and even our tastes, customs, and dresses, either arraigned or condemned;as, on the contrary, it is tickled and flattered by approbation.