The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.

Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.

There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.

No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.

There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.

When our cup runs over, we let others drink the drops that fall, but not a drop from within the rim, and call it charity; when the crumbs are swept from our table, we think it generous to let the dogs eat them; as if that were charity which permits others to have what we cannot keep.

A dull ax never loves grindstones.