Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

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 with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.

It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.

Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have the wealth of the Indies in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.