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Most people would rather be seen through than not seen at all.

Hardships, poverty and want are the best incentives, and the best foundation, for the success of man.

You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity.

Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action.

There isn't much that tastes better than praise from those who are wise and capable.

A man who is afraid will do anything.

Interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays all sorts of parts, even that of disinterestedness.

Happiness is in the taste, and not in things themselves; we are happy a possessing what we like, not a possessing what others like.

Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, animating us in our enterprise.

I wish it, I command it. Let my will take the place of a reason.