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.

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

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.

The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it.

A mother's love is indeed the golden link that binds youth to age; and he is still but a child, however time may have furrowed his cheek, or silvered his brow, who can yet recall, with a softened heart, the fond devotion, or the gentle chidings, of the best friend that God gives us.

Successful love takes a load off our hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders.