It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

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.

Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him.

The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it.

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

It may, indeed, be said that sympathy exists in all minds, as Faraday has discovered that magnetism exists in all metals; but a certain temperature is required to develop the hidden property, whether in the metal or the mind.

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.