Tears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.

Poverty is relative, and, therefor not ignoble.

Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

Patience is the courage of the conqueror, the strength of man against destiny.

Never get a reputation for a small perfection if you are trying for fame in a loftier area. The world can only judge by generals, and it sees that those who pay considerable attention to minutiae seldom have their minds occupied with great things.

The faults of a brilliant writer are never dangerous on the long run; a thousand people read his work who would read no other; inquiry is directed to each of his doctrines; it is soon discovered what is sound and what is false; the sound become maxims, and the false beacons.

Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time, the leash which at first galled often grows easy and familiar.