Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is pinched.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.

There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.