It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.

More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.

Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.

It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice-a still weaker thing to take it.

Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

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.