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.

Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were.

A better principle than this, that "the majority shall rule," is this other, that justice shall rule. "Justice," says the code of Justinian, "is the constant and perpetual desire to render every man his due.

A book should be luminous not voluminous.

It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.

Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.