The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener..

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body..

Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands..

True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensatio….

Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity..

Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom l….

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you..

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes..

Silence is sometimes more significant and sublime than the most noble and most expressive eloquence, and is on many occasions the indication of a gre….

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for..

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both..

Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes..

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is incon….

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side..

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality..

There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion..

We are growing serious, and, let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull..

Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it doe….

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

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select co….

Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs..