Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.