Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written..

Offended vanity is the great separator in social life..

Many a man has a kind of a kaleidoscope, where the bits of broken glass are his own merits and fortunes; and they fall into harmonious arrangements, ….

The man who could withstand, with his fellow-men in single line, a charge of cavalry may lose all command of himself on the occurrence of a fire in h….

The most common-place people become highly imaginative when they are in a passion. Whole dramas of insult, injury, and wrong pass before their minds,….

They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation..

It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them; and this not on account of any gratification of van….

It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be..

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a t….

There are few who would need advisers, if they were only accustomed to appeal to themselves in their calmest, holiest moments. If, when embarrassed w….

Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to the last moment, to b….

No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up, the register of crime mig….

There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius..

There is one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that he has made if he had only ridden….

A great many wise sayings have been uttered about the effects of solitary retirement; but the motives which impel men to seek it are not more various….

Love, like the opening of the heavens to the Saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest man, the possibilities of the human race. He has faith, ….

A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not understand. "Then, y….

Be cheerful [and grateful for the good that you have]: do not brood over fond hopes unrealized until a chain is fastened on each thought and wound ar….

Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?.

The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives..

An official man is always an official man, and has a wild belief in the value of Reports..