The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.

Beauty is an accidental and transient good.

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.