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

Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.

A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not understand. "Then, young man, your creed will be the shortest of any man's I know."

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.

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