"The grace of novelty and the length..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune.”

“Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry.”

“We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.”

“In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.”

“Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.”

“Poem by Howard A. Walter (Character) I would be true, for there are those who trust me; I would be pure, for there are those who care; I would be strong, for there are those who suffer; I would be brave, for there is much to dare. I would be friend of all--- the foe, the friendless; I would be giving, and forget the gift; I would be humble, for I know my weakness; I would look up, and laugh, and love, and lift.”

“Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.”

“The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.”

“The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.”