The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.

No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up, the register of crime might be greatly diminished. But what would become of human nature? Where would be the room for growth in such a system of things? It is through sorrow and mirth, plenty and need, a variety of passions, circumstances, and temptations, even through sin and misery, that men's natures are developed.

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

An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

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.

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.