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.

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

Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.

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

The apparent foolishness of others is but too frequently our own ignorance.

The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.

Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.