Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.

The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.

No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up, the register of crime might be greatly diminished. But what would become of human nature? Where would be the room for growth in such a system of things? It is through sorrow and mirth, plenty and need, a variety of passions, circumstances, and temptations, even through sin and misery, that men's natures are developed.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.

Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm.