A gentleman makes no noise; a lady is serene.

We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties.

Genius is saying what is in your heart, because it's in everyone's heart.

Improve your spare moments and they will become the brightest gems in your life.

It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.

He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.

Character is an invincible force, which acts by presence and without means