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

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

It is some compensation for great evils, that they enforce great lessons.

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.

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

Pure motives do not insure perfect results.