The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.
Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.
The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.