Some persons take reproof good-humoredly enough, unless you are so unlucky as to hit a sore place. Then they wince and writhe, and start up and knock you down for your impertinence, or wish you good morning.

Practical life teaches us that people may differ and that both may be wrong: it also teaches us that people may differ and both be right. Anchor yourself fast in the latter faith, or the former will sweep your heart away.

We like slipping, but not falling; our real anxiety is to be tempted enough.

Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.

Few take advice, or physic, without wry faces at it.

I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.

There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.