We Are Pleased With One

Remember That In Giving Any Reason At All For Refusing, You Lay Some Foundation For A Future Request.

The Most Common-place People Become Highly Imaginative When They Are In A Passion. Whole Dramas Of Insult, Injury, And Wrong Pass Before Their Minds,--efforts Of Creative Genius, For There Is Sometimes Not A Fact To Go Upon.

It Is Quite Impossible To Understand The Character Of A Person From One Action, However Striking That Action May Be.

It Is A Weak Thing To Tell Half Your Story, And Then Ask Your Friend's Advice-a Still Weaker Thing To Take It.

Rare Almost As Great Poets, Rarer, Perhaps, Than Veritable Saints And Martyrs; Are Consummate Men Of Business. A Man, To Be Excellent In This Way, Requires A Great Knowledge Of Character, With That Exquisite Tact Which Feels Unerringly The Right Moment When To Act. A Discreet Rapidity Must Pervade All The Movements Of His Thought And Action. He Must Be Singularly Free From Vanity, And Is Generally Found To Be An Enthusiast Who Has The Art To Conceal His Enthusiasm.