Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.

we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.

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.