A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.