Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.

In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.

Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?

Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to show originality, are yet constrained to repeat. Therein lies the marrow of the wisdom of the world.

Many a man has a kind of a kaleidoscope, where the bits of broken glass are his own merits and fortunes; and they fall into harmonious arrangements, and delight him, often most mischievously and to his ultimate detriment; but they are a present pleasure.

They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.