We are not so easily guided by our most prominent weaknesses as by those of which we are least aware.

Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.

Any one who is much talked of be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how much more given men are to depreciate than to appreciate, you will acknowledge that there is some truth in the saying.

Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.

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.

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

They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.