When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

Each book has a secret history of ways and means.

A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.

The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself, and a mean man, by one lower than himself.