Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words.

A better principle than this, that "the majority shall rule," is this other, that justice shall rule. "Justice," says the code of Justinian, "is the constant and perpetual desire to render every man his due.

A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter it, and then, in a lesser, but still in a considerable degree, the friend who is the first to quote it to us. Whoever adopts and circulates a just thought, participates in the merit that originated it.

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

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.

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.