A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult ...

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.