It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others are plain, honest and upright, like the broad faced sunflower and the hollyhock.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.

It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.

Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.