I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.

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.

Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.

Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

A cheerful, easy, open countenance will make fools think you a good-natured man, and make designing men think you an undesigning one.

Ties of blood are not always ties of friendship; but friendship founded on merit, on esteem, and on mutual trust, becomes more vital and more tender when strengthened by the ties of blood.