The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.

The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.

Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt.

Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.

The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.