When all else is lost, the future still remains.

It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull flowers of rhetoric.

Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities are to our wants as Falstaff's pennyworth of bread to his any quantity of sack.

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

An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.