Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.

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

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.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

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

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.

Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.