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

Dishonesty is a forsaking of permanent for temporary advantages.

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.

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.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.