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

There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it.

Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

A better principle than this, that "the majority shall rule," is this other, that justice shall rule. "Justice," says the code of Justinian, "is the constant and perpetual desire to render every man his due.

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.

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