Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.

Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some mournful man's darkened room, like a beautiful firefly, whose happy circumvolutions he cannot but watch, forgetting his many troubles.

The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.

The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.