The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.

Rejecting the miracles of Christ, we still have the miracle of Christ Himself.

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.

How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!

The cheerful live longest in years, and afterwards in our regards. Cheerfulness is the off-shoot of goodness.

The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

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.