A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life.

A mind grows by what it feeds on.

That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slow, endures.

Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.

Every man who strikes blows for power, for influence, for institutions, for the right, must be just as good an anvil as he is a hammer.

The love that gushes for all is the real elixir of life - the fountain of bodily longevity. It is the lack of this that always produces the feeling of age.

Of all the scamps society knows, the traditional good fellow is the most despicable.