If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.

What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.