Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.

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

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.

Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether.

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.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

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