When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.

Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.

Debt is to man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.

Ask any school-boy up to the age of fifteen where he would spend his holidays. Not one in five hundred will say, "In the streets of London," if you give him the option of green fields and running waters. It is, then, a fair presumption that there must be something of the child still in the character of the men or the women whom the country charms in maturer as in dawning life.

People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.