He that does good to another does good also to himself.

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.

The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse.

He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style.

The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.

The foremost art of Kings is the power to endure hatred.