Good-humor makes all things tolerable

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.

Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."

It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.

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