He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

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

The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money chest.

In every civilized society there is found a race of men who retain the instincts of the aboriginal cannibal and live upon their fellow-men as a natural food.

Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.

Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed, -it steals away the freshness of life, -it deadens its vivid and social enjoyments, -it shuts our souls to our own youth, -and we are old ere we remember that we have made a fever and a labor of our raciest years.

There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.