Kind words are benedictions. The are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and hearer of them.

Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world.

Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.

The best practitioners give to their patients the least medicine.

True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are accustomed to think.

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea

How would that excellent mystery, wedded life, irradiate the world with its blessed influences, were the generous impulses and sentiments of courtship but perpetuated in all their exuberant fullness during the sequel of marriage!