The more sincere we are in our belief, as a rule, the less demonstrative we are.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

The aster has not wasted spring and summer because it has not blossomed. It has been all the time preparing for what is to follow, and in autumn it is the glory of the field, and only the frost lays it low. So there are many people who must live forty or fifty years, and have the crude sap of their natural dispositions changed and sweetened before the blossoming time can come; but their lives have not been wasted.

Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.