Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought and wound around the heart. Nature intended you to be the fountain-spring of cheerfulness and social life, and not the mountain of despair and melancholy.

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.

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

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

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

No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up, the register of crime might be greatly diminished. But what would become of human nature? Where would be the room for growth in such a system of things? It is through sorrow and mirth, plenty and need, a variety of passions, circumstances, and temptations, even through sin and misery, that men's natures are developed.

The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.