No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.

The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the sensibilities of others. This is the one quality, over all others, necessary to make a gentleman.

The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.

Vanity may be likened to the smooth-skinned and velvet-footed mouse, nibbling about forever in expectation of a crumb; while self-esteem is too apt to take the likeness of the huge butcher's dog, who carries off your steaks, and growls at you as be goes.

No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.

There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter how, it temporarily gains its object.

The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.