Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.

There is always a best way of doing everything, if it be to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

Genius Borrows nobly.

All great men come out of the middle classes.

If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.

You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you. Far otherwise; your silence utters very loud: you have no oracle to speak, no wisdom to offer, and your fellow men have learned that you cannot help them. Doth not wisdom cry, and understanding put forth her voice? We would be well to do likewise.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.