Prayer draws us near to our own souls.

Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy.

If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.

And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for somebody else? Stranger things have happened.

Nothing can lift the heart of man like manhood in a fellow man.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals.