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

He half retrieves a defeat who yields to it gracefully.

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.

In one important respect a man is fortunate in being poor. His responsibility to God is so much the less

The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.

The selection of a subject is to the author what choice of position is to the general,--once skilfully determined, the battle is already half won. Of a few writers it may be said that they are popular in despite of their subjects--but of a great many more it may be observed that they are popular because of them.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.