What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.

Writers are the main landmarks of the past.

A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.