Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.

Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.