Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is likely to be embittered or corrupted by extremes, either of adversity or prosperity.

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.

It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.

The moment one begins to solder right and wrong together, one's conscience becomes like a piece of plated goods.

We can sometimes love what we do not understand, but it is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.

Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.