Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

Distaste sounds more emphatic when expressed as moral disapproval. With most of us the moral counterblast is nothing more than the angry rendering of a yawn.

Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.

As crowds increase we build our forts of inattention, and the more we talk the easier it is to mean little and listen not at all.

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.