Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.
Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion. - William Makepeace Thackeray