We must remember how apt man is to extremes--rushing from credulity and weakness to suspicion and distrust.

My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.

How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.

He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.

Centuries roll, customs change, but, ever since the time of the earliest mother, woman yearns to be the soother.