Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

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

Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.

Wit must be without effort. Wit is play, not work; a nimbleness of the fancy, not a laborious effort of the will; a license, a holiday, a carnival of thought and feeling, not a trifling with speech, a constraint upon language, a duress upon words.

Motives are better than actions. Men drift into crime. Of evil they do more than they contemplate, and of good they contemplate more than they do.