The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.

Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.

Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.

Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.

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

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.