Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.

The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out for one pretext after another to justify his hostility.

The more secure we feel against our liability to any error to which, in fact, we are liable, the greater must be our danger of falling into it.

Nothing but the right can ever be expedient, since that can never be true expediency which would sacrifice a great good to a less.

Grace is in a great measure a natural gift; elegance implies cultivation; or something of more artificial character. A rustic, uneducated girl may be graceful, but an elegant woman must be accomplished and well trained. It is the same with things as with persons; we talk of a graceful tree, but of an elegant house or other building. Animals may be graceful, but they cannot be elegant. The movements of a kitten or a young fawn are full of grace; but to call them "elegant" animals would be absurd.