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.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

As many suffer from too much as too little.

Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.