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.

Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

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

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.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.