The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

I do not know any way so sure of making others happy as of being so oneself, to begin with.

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.

The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.

Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.

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.