Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

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

Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.

Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.

More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.

It takes a great man to make a great listener