If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.

Nothing ages like laziness.

Though Hope be a small child, she can carry a great anchor!

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.

A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.