Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.

In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.