Character is very much a matter of health.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

All good writing leaves something unexpressed.

It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.

Tis but a short journey across the isthmus of Now.

It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.