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

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

The language of the heart--the language which "comes from the heart" and "goes to the heart"--is always simple, always graceful, and always full of power, but no art of rhetoric can teach it. It is at once the easiest and most difficult language--difficult, since it needs a heart to speak it; easy, because its periods though rounded and full of harmony, are still unstudied.

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

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.