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

It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them; and this not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.

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.

We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte.

It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.

Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little, you may often look over it altogether. So it is with our moral improvement: we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which could have no hold upon us if we ascended into a higher moral atmosphere.

It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.