The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it; the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.

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

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

A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr, observed that he would believe nothing which he could not understand. "Then, young man, your creed will be the shortest of any man's I know."

No man has ever praised to persons equally-and pleased them both.

The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.

Any one who is much talked of be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how much more given men are to depreciate than to appreciate, you will acknowledge that there is some truth in the saying.