Character is very much a matter of health.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.

Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

God has created too few unmixed evils to warrant the belief that death is one of them. In all things else in nature, goodness so abounds that we are authorized to infer that it does not stop even at the grave. It is only that her footprints have become invisible.

What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb suggests, is determinable, not so much by what we have lost, as by what we have left.