There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.

The really happy woman is the one who can enjoy the scenery when she has to take a detour. Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but rather a manner of traveling.

The future is bought with the present.

Much is due to those who first broke the way to knowledge, and left only to their successors the task of smoothing it.

To those who have lived long together, everything heard and everything seen recalls some pleasure communicated, some benefit conferred, some petty quarrel or some slight endearment. Esteem of great powers, or amiable qualities newly discovered may embroider a day or a week, but a friendship of twenty years is interwoven with the texture of life.

It is to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness.

Club: An assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.