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

Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.

Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.

The heart of a girl is like a convent--the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door.

Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak.

Sooner mayest thou trust thy pocket to a pickpocket than give loyal friendship to the man who boasts of eyes to the heart never mounts in dew! Only when man weeps he should be alone, not because tears are weak, but they should be secret. Tears are akin to prayer,--Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.

We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.