A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

A book should be luminous not voluminous.

Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.

The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found.

Pleasure and pain spring not so much from the nature of things, as from our manner of considering them. Pleasure, especially, is never an invariable effect of particular circumstances.

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.

Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment.