Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.

Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.

America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.