We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.

There is this paradox in fear: he is most likely to inspire it in others who has none himself!

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.

Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.

He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.

Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.