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

When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion.

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

Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots.

Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. Even when the original author of some healthy and useful truth is forgotten, the truth survives, transplanted to works more calculated to purify it from error, and perpetuate it to our benefit.