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

It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he believes as a matter of general conviction, but it is not so with what he utters in the freedom of conversation. In that he may only express the feeling of the moment, and not his settled judgment, or matured opinion.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.

Character is very much a matter of health.

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!