Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.

Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.

Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,--efforts of creative genius, for there is sometimes not a fact to go upon.

What a blessing this smoking is! Perhaps the greatest that we owe to the discovery of America.

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