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A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming to me?"
"Only the village druggist," was the answer.
"And what sort of foolish advice did that numbskull give you?" asked the doctor, his tone and manner denoting his contempt for the advice of the layman.
"Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."

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"Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."

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It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.

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For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

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A page of history is worth a pound of logic.

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It was a grand trait of the old Roman that with him one and the same word meant both honor and honesty.

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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.

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Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed.

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That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it which will waste it. The same corrupt dispositions which incline men to sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.

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Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?

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