“One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.”

“A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.”

“We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.”

“One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it, it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude, and amending the error.”

“In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.”

“Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness anger concealed often hardens into revenge. ”

“Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.”

“There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.”

“If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.”

“Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.”

“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.”