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.

Better that we should err in action than wholly refuse to perform. The storm is so much better than the calm, as it declares the presence of a living principle. Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.

Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.

Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring pleasures.

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.

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