How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!

Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found.

Constant companionship is not enjoyable, any more than constant eating. We sit too long at the table of friendship, when we outsit our appetites for each other's thoughts.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

The trouble with men of sense is that they are so dreadfully in earnest all the while.