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

We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever.

Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.

The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure.

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

Poverty has strange bedfellows.

Power is so characteristically calm that calmness in itself has the aspect of power, and forbearance implies strength. The orator who is known to have at his command all the weapons of invective is most formidable when most courteous.