False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

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

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.

Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.

The language of the heart--the language which "comes from the heart" and "goes to the heart"--is always simple, always graceful, and always full of power, but no art of rhetoric can teach it. It is at once the easiest and most difficult language--difficult, since it needs a heart to speak it; easy, because its periods though rounded and full of harmony, are still unstudied.

What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb suggests, is determinable, not so much by what we have lost, as by what we have left.

Justice, not the majority, should rule.