The language of the heart--the language which "comes from the heart" and "goes to the heart"--is always simple, always graceful, and always full of power, but no art of rhetoric can teach it. It is at once the easiest and most difficult language--difficult, since it needs a heart to speak it; easy, because its periods though rounded and full of harmony, are still unstudied.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

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

Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.

It is of very little use in trying to be dignified, if dignity is no part of your character.