Loss of sincerity is loss of vital power.
The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
Example has far more followers than reason.
What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb suggests, is determinable, not so much by what we have lost, as by what we have left.