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.

It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.

Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.

We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.