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.

The proverb answers where the sermon fails.

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.

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.

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.

I believe that economists put decimal points in their forecasts to show they have a sense of humor.

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