Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.

Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.

Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.

No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them.

Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is frequently fatal to the best of talents. Without denying that it is a talent of itself, it will suffice if we admit that it supplies the place of many talents.