We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.

Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.

Those who can command themselves command others.

It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.

Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.

We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's.

There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass ""no day without a line""-visit no place without the company of a book-we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.