Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. But all play and no work makes him something worse.

Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.

It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest: better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune. . . .

Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to -day as when they first passed through their authors' minds ages ago.

When typhus or cholera breaks out, they tell us that Nobody is to blame. That terrible Nobody! How much he has to answer for. More mischief is done by Nobody than by all the world besides.