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

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

Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.

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

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her sentiments and manifesting his or her feelings, however unfit the time, however inappropriate the place, however painful this expression may be, lays claim, forsooth, to our approbation as an honest person, and sneers at those of finer sensibilities as hypocrites.

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