Tis but a short journey across the isthmus of Now.

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.

Character is very much a matter of health.

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.