Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.

Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

Many know how to please, but know not when they have ceased to give pleasure.

Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.

It takes a great man to make a good listener.

Almost all human affairs are tedious. Everything is too long. Visits, dinners, concerts, plays, speeches, pleadings, essays, sermons, are too long. Pleasure and business labor equally under this defect, or, as I should rather say, this fatal super-abundance.