To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgment, that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.

A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape: it embellishes an inferior face, and redeems an ugly one.

He only is great who has the habits of greatness; who, after performing what none in ten thousand could accomplish, passes on like Samson, and "tells neither father nor mother of it."

The discovery of truth by slow, progressive meditation is talent.

He who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God.

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

As a man’s salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.

A gift – its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it; the style in which it reaches you – may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.

Thousands are hated, while none are loved without a real cause.