I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
My advice is to never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.
Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.
I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.
For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship and pass the rosy wine.
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.
The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.