You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.

We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life.

It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.

No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.

There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.

Living requires but little life; doing requires much.