A good character when established should not be rested in as an end, but only employed as a means of doing still further good.

Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?

It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

It's attention to detail that makes the difference between average and stunning.

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.

The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful manner; so that we are but little aware of them and less able to withstand them.

Even the wisdom of God hath not suggested more pressing motives, more powerful incentives to charity, than these, that we shall be judged by it at the last dreadful day.

He who performs his duty in a station of great power must needs incur the utter enmity of many, and the high displeasure of more.

The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead.

He was a poet -oh all men are when they're in love.

Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference?

Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.

She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.

A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband, while a man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

The United States is willing to exert strong leadership to give diplomacy its very best chance to succeed.

News is often dispersed as thoughtlessly and effectively as that pollen which the bees carry off (having no idea how powdery they are) when they are buzzing in search of their particular nectar.

I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.

Vitali [Klitschko] does want to fight me, but his promoter wants to be bigger than him. This is another situation of politics in the sport.

You can't make an egg without frying an egg