A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.

What we read with inclination makes a much stronger impression. If we read without inclination, half the mind is employed in fixing the attention; so there is but one half to be employed on what we read.

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.

A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller: he follows it at all adventures; it is sure to lead him out of his way and sure to engulf him in the mire.

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.

In matters of business, no woman stops at integrity.