Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.

Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its head proudly above its neighbor plants-forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence is the expression of its yearning tenderness.