No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

Many very intelligent agreeable persons have warts on the forehead, not brown, nor very large, between the eyebrows, which have nothing in them offensive or disgusting. - But a large brown wart on the upper lip, especially when it is bristly, will be found in no person who is not defective in something essential, or at least remarkable for some conspicuous failing.

The worst of faces still is human.

Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.

Loudness is impotence.

He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.