As it has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth." And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The truths we believe in are the pillars of our world.

The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.

Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.

A man is already of consequence in the world when it is known that we can implicitly rely upon him. Often I have known a man to be preferred in stations of honor and profit because he had this reputation: When he said he knew a thing, he knew it, and when he said he would do a thing, he did it.

There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise.

Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.

There are times when the mirth of others only saddens us, especially the mirth of children with high spirits, that jar on our own quiet mood.