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

Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.

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

Any one who is much talked of be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how much more given men are to depreciate than to appreciate, you will acknowledge that there is some truth in the saying.

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

When we consider the incidents of former days, and perceive, while reviewing the long line of causes, how the most important events of our lives originated in the most trifling circumstances; how the beginning of our greatest happiness or greatest misery is to be attributed to a delay, to an accident, to a mistake; we learn a lesson of profound humility.

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