It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.

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

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

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.

Men rattle their chains-to manifest their freedom.

More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.

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.