That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.