Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

The extent of poverty in the world is much exaggerated. Our sensitiveness makes half our poverty; our fears--anxieties for ills that never happen--a greater part of the other half.

He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.

Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.