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

No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

Convert life into truth.

When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.

There is always room for a man of force and he makes room for many. Society is a troop of thinkers and the best heads among them take the best places.

If you believe in fate, believe in it, at least, for your good.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.