Some people are capable of making great sacrifices, but few are capable of concealing how much the effort has cost them; and it is this concealment that constitutes their value.

There are some chagrins of the heart which a friend ought to try to console without betraying a knowledge of their existence, as there are physical maladies which a physician ought to seek to heal without letting the sufferer know that he has discovered their extent.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

A German writer observes: "The noblest characters only show themselves in their real light. All others act comedy with their fellow-men even unto the grave.

Men who would persecute others for religious opinions, prove the errors of their own.

Listeners beware, for ye are doomed never to hear good of yourselves.