A boor cannot be sin-fearing, an ignoramus cannot be pious, a bashful one cannot learn, a short-tempered person cannot teach, nor does anyone who does much business grow wise.

Do not say, 'when I have leisure I will study,' for you may never have leisure.

Do not separate yourself from the community.

Do not judge your fellow man until you have come into his situation.

Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous m…

The best good man, with the worst natur'd muse.

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.