More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper..

Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues..

People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers..

Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request..

Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away..

Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering..

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection..

We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware..

The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance..

Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, re….

Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether..

Experience is the extract of suffering..

When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events of our lives orig….

It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown..

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed..

Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure..

Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism..

No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at..

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome..

He who is continually changing his point of view sees more, and more clearly, than one who, statue-like, forever stands upon the same pedestal; howev….

Extremely foolish advice is likely to be uttered by those who are looking at the laboring vessel from the land..