Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to get somewhat chiseled, as it were, before it will fit into an epigram.

If we only knew the real value of a day.

When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own.

When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own; and this is especially the case with those persons whose knowledge of the world is of such sort that it results in extreme distrust of men.

Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

We are odd compounds full of explosive material to which circumstances may at any time apply a spark, with results undreamed of even by those who thought they knew us best.