There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise.

The food of hope is meditative action.

Master books, but do not let them master you.

Of all the conditions to which the heart is subject suspense is one that most gnaws and cankers into the frame. One little month of that suspense, when it involves death, we are told by an eye witness in "Wakefield on the Punishment of Death," is sufficient to plough fixed lines and furrows in a convict of five and twenty,--sufficient, to dash the brown hair with grey, and to bleach the grey to white.

As it has been finely expressed, "Principle is a passion for truth." And as an earlier and homelier writer hath it, "The truths we believe in are the pillars of our world.

To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.

Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.