Experience is the extract of suffering.

I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

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.

People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers.

The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.

The man who could withstand, with his fellow-men in single line, a charge of cavalry may lose all command of himself on the occurrence of a fire in his own house, because of some homely reminiscence unknown to the observing bystander.