Clothes and manners do not make the man but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration, the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things