The heart contracts as the pocket expands.

We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.

We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Mortal beauty stings while it delights.

Contentment is not happiness. An oyster may be contented. Happiness is compounded of richer elements.

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