Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Tears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.

There is no policy like politeness; and a good manner is the best thing in the world either to get a good name, or to supply the want of it.

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

The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.

Love is rarely a hypocrite; but hate--how detect and how guard against it! It lurks where you least expect it; it is created by causes that you can the least foresee; and civilization multiplies its varieties, whilst it favors its disguise.

In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.