Hope is the best part of our riches.

It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he believes as a matter of general conviction, but it is not so with what he utters in the freedom of conversation. In that he may only express the feeling of the moment, and not his settled judgment, or matured opinion.

Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.

The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.

An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

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