It is all very well for you, who have probably never seen any spiritual manifestations, to talk as you do; but if you had seen what I have witnessed you would hold a different opinion.

What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.