Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

The secret of the difficulties of those people who make a great deal of money, and yet are always in want of it, is this-they throw it away as soon as they get it on the first whim or extravagance that strikes them, and have nothing left to meet ordinary expenses or discharge old debts.

I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.

No really great man ever thought himself so.

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.

Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority; natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution of the human mind itself.