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.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.

Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.

To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound.

Justice, not the majority, should rule.

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.

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