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.

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.

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

It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut.

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

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.