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.

Pure motives do not insure perfect results.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.

Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them.