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.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

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.

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.