In the assurance of strength there is strength; and they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.

How like a railway tunnel is the poor man's life, with the light of childhood at one end, the intermediate gloom, and only the glimmer of a future life at the other extremity!

Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.

Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.

Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.

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

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.