Vanity in its idler moments is benevolent, is as willing to give pleasure as to take it, and accepts as sufficient reward for its services a kind word or an approving smile.

A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel where all are speakers and no hearers.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

If the egotist is weak, his egotism is worthless. If the egotist is strong, acute, full of distinctive character, his egotism is precious, and remains a possession of the race.

To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity, or, at all events, a moderate amount of it, is required,--just as sunshine is needed for the ripening of peaches and apricots.

God has thickly strewn infinity with grandeur.

A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.