Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

The actual well seen is ideal.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Wonderful ''Force of Public Opinion!'' We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of ''influence'' it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.