To be gret is to be misunderstood.

Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.

A man of no conversation should smoke.

Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives.

The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.

A friend is a person who goes around saying nice things about you behind your back.

I see that sensible men and conscientious men all over the world were of one religion of well-doing and daring.