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.

Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves, by showing how little is deserved by others.

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

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

The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment.

Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.