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.

Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.

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

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

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

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

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