Those who never philosophized until they met with disappointments, have mostly become disappointed philosophers

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

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

The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.

Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm.

People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers.

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