In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.
The loss of a beloved connection awakens an interest in Heaven before unfelt.
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.
It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.