He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.

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

Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.

Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

Hard workers are usually honest; industry lifts them above temptation.