“Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.”
“The doctor found, when she was dead, her last disorder mortal.”
“Take a dollar from a thousand and it will be a thousand no more.”
“You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.”
“Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.”
“Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.”
“Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.”
“Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.”
“The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.”
“When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.”
“Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.”
“Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is always talkative.”
“The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.”
“Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.”
“Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.”
“People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after.”
“No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.”
“Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.”
“But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.”
“Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.”
“The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.”
“Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.”
“The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.”
“The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.”
“People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.”
“With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.”
“The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with success.”
“Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.”
“A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.”
“The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.”