Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
Growth is often a painful process.
When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket.
Imitation is the sincerest form of insult.
Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts.
Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.