Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.

If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak.

Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.

Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

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.

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. A man who is not happy in company, cannot find any word in his memory that will fit the occasion; all his information is a little impertinent. A man who is happy there, finds in every turn of the conversation occasions for the introduction of what he has to say. The favorites of society are able men, and of more spirit than wit, who have no uncomfortable egotism, but who exactly fill the hour and the company, contended and contenting.