Simple people are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them. |
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all. |
Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface. |
Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good. |
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. |
Speak not too well of one who scarce will know himself transfigured in its roseate glow; Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true, remembering always he belongs to you; Deal with him as a truant, if you will, But claim him, keep him, call him brother still! |
Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features. |
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding |
Stupidity often saves a man from going mad. |
Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays, the pleasing game of interchanging praise. |
Tact is the ability to tell a man he has an open mind when he has a hole in his head |
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. |
Talking is one of the fine arts - the noblest, the most important, the most difficult - and its fluent harmonies may be spoiled by the intrusion of a single harsh note |
The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books |
The Amen of nature is always a flower. |