Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.
More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.
The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly. He who aspires to nothing, who learns nothing, is not worthy of living.
Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.