Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.

Sooner mayest thou trust thy pocket to a pickpocket than give loyal friendship to the man who boasts of eyes to the heart never mounts in dew! Only when man weeps he should be alone, not because tears are weak, but they should be secret. Tears are akin to prayer,--Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.

A man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is to egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him.

O woman! woman! thou shouldest have few sins of thine own to answer for! Thou art the author of such a book of follies in a man that it would need the tears of all the angels to blot the record out.

Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.

Keep we to the broad truths before us; duty here; knowledge comes alone in the Hereafter.