Examples are few of men ruined by giving.

Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.

We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.

What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb suggests, is determinable, not so much by what we have lost, as by what we have left.

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.

How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!