Truth takes the stamp of the souls it enters. It is rigorous and rough in arid souls, but tempers and softens itself in loving natures.

Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your GOD is!!!!!! Contentment begins where comparison ends. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.

Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.

I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.