Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

Malice often takes the garb of truth.

Do not quarrel with the world too soon; for, bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in, here. If railing would have made it better, it would have been reformed long ago.

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

Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.

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.

No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.