It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.

Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.

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.

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!

Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

Justice, not the majority, should rule.

We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.