“Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.”

“Every man over forty is a scoundrel”

“In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good. ”

“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”

“Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.”

“Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.”