Character Is Itself A Fortune.

What We Are Accustomed To Decry As Great Social Evils, Will, For The Most Part, Be Found To Be Only The Out-growth Of Our Own Perverted Life; And Though We May Endeavor To Cut Them Down And Extirpate Them By Means Of Law, They Will Only Spring Up Again With Fresh Luxuriance In Some Other Form, Unless The Conditions Of Human Life And Character Are Radically Improved.

The Wise Man... If He Would Live At Peace With Others, He Will Bear And Forbear.

Politeness Goes Far, Yet Costs Nothing.

The Very Greatest Things - Great Thoughts, Discoveries, Inventions - Have Usually Been Nurtured In Hardship, Often Pondered Over In Sorrow, And At Length Established With Difficulty.

The Shortest Way To Do Many Things Is To Do Only One Thing At Once.