Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

We sell the thrones of angels for a short and turbulent pleasure.

Although knaves win in every political struggle, although society seems to be delivered over from the hands of one set of criminals into the hands of another set of criminals, as fast as the government is changed, and the march of civilization is a train of felonies, yet, general ends are somehow answered.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

The finest and noblest ground on which people can live is truth; the real with the real; a ground on which nothing is assumed.

Successful people live well, laugh often, and love much. They've filled a niche and accomplished tasks so as to leave the world better than they found it, while looking for the best in others, and giving the best they have.

The laws of each are convertible into the laws of any other.