To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man….such a man is a true gentleman.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.

Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your