Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.

Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

The slanderer and the assassin differ only in the weapon they use; with the one it is the dagger, with the other the tongue. The former is worse that the latter, for the last only kills the body, while the other murders the reputation.

To be good, we must do good; and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.

What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.