The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it. [a predisposition to notice the beautiful, in everything.]

It is seldom that we find out how great are our resources until we are thrown upon them.

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.

We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.

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

Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

If one is not virtuous he becomes vicious.