Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.

What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.

The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life.

The customer is the immediate jewel of our souls. Him we flatter, him we feast, compliment, vote for, and will not contradict.

Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good to his own; but when they see it proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life itself, there is no limit to their admiration.

When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.

Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.