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

Some one called Sir Richard Steele the "vilest of mankind," and he retorted with proud humility, "It would be a glorious world if I were.

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

It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.

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

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.

Our first and last love is self-love.