Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

God, we are told, looked upon the world after he had created it and pronounced it good; but ascetic pietists, in their wisdom, cast their eyes over it, and substantially pronounce it a dead failure, a miserable production, a poor concern.

The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect may safely be left to that final neglect from which no amount of present undeserved popularity can rescue it.

The worst deluded are the self-deluded.

Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.

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