A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

A great man la an abstraction of some one excellence; but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence, so far from being great, may be sure that he is a blockhead, equally ignorant of excellence or defect of himself or others.

We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again.

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.

It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.