I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How great? Guess.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.

Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point.

All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.

When we would show any one that he is mistaken, our best course is to observe on what side he considers the subject,--for his view of if is generally right on this side,--and admit to him that he is right so far. He will be satisfied with this acknowledgment, that he was not wrong in his judgment, but only inadvertent in not looking at the whole case.

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.