Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.
The heart contracts as the pocket expands.
Women seldom forfeit their claims to respect to men whom they respect.
Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.