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

Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.

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

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

It takes a great man to make a great listener

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

Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labor equally under this defect, or, as I should rather say, this fatal super-abundance.