Modesty Is Policy, No Less Than Virtue.

Stagnation Is Something Worse Than Death. It Is Corruption, Also.

There Is A Native Baseness In The Ambition Which Seeks Beyond Its Desert, That Never Shows More Conspicuously Than When, No Matter How, It Temporarily Gains Its Object.

The Only True Source Of Politeness Is Consideration.

Tact Is One Of The First Of Mental Virtues, The Absence Of Which Is Frequently Fatal To The Best Of Talents. Without Denying That It Is A Talent Of Itself, It Will Suffice If We Admit That It Supplies The Place Of Many Talents.

The Proverb Answers Where The Sermon Fails.