Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.