It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way; they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

The idea of seeing the sea - of being near it - watching its changes by sunrise, sunset, moonlight, and noonday - in calm, perhaps in storm - fills and satisfies my mind.

My fine visions are all very well, but I must not forget they are absolutely unreal. I have a rosy sky and a green flowery Eden in my brain; but without, I am perfectly aware, lies at my feet a rough tract to travel, and around me gather black tempests to encounter.