Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

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

Adhesion to one idea is monomania; to few, slavery.

The worst deluded are the self-deluded.

Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.