Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.

Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.

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

There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.

Earnestness is the devotion of all the faculties.