There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.

I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not.

It is a shameful thing to insult a child.

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.