You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
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.
The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.
Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.
Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.
