Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.

Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

Examples are few of men ruined by giving.