Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

The worth of a book is a matter of expressed juices.

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

The great artist is a slave to his ideals.

It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.